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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 14, 2015Atlantic County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 14, 2015, 4:00 PM EDT for Atlantic County, New Jersey. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 2015, 4:00 PM EDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2015, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Atlantic County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 196 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 653 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1118 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

885 
WWUS81 KPHI 142000
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
400 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 2015
 
NJZ017-018-022-027-142030-
SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON-ATLANTIC-CAMDEN-GLOUCESTER-
400 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 2015

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN ATLANTIC...
SOUTHEASTERN CAMDEN...SOUTHEASTERN GLOUCESTER AND SOUTHEASTERN
BURLINGTON COUNTIES...

AT 400 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER HAMMONTON...OR 15
MILES NORTHEAST OF VINELAND...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HAMMONTON...CLAYTON...EGG HARBOR CITY...CHESILHURST...WADING RIVER...
SICKLERVILLE...ELWOOD-MAGNOLIA...WILLIAMSTOWN...BATSTO...WHARTON
STATE FOREST...ATSION...MONROE TOWNSHIP...ATCO...POMONA...PINE
HILL...FOLSOM AND COLLINGS LAKES.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3947 7453 3960 7507 3978 7499 3974 7448
TIME...MOT...LOC 2000Z 278DEG 17KT 3965 7482 
$$

SFJ

The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Salem	38 min
Jun 14, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic, Camden	30 min
Jun 14, 7:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Salem	39 min
Jun 14, 7:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		50 min
Jun 14, 4:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Chester	3 hr
Jun 14, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks, Chester	51 min
Jun 14, 6:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks, Chester	55 min
Jun 14, 6:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Carbon, Monroe	4 hr
Jun 14, 7:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks, Chester, Montgomery	44 min
Jun 14, 4:54 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's	4 hr
Jun 14, 4:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cecil	24 min
Jun 14, 6:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot	28 min
Jun 14, 3:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	24 min
Jun 14, 3:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex	36 min
Jun 14, 4:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	28 min
Jun 14, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	24 min
Jun 14, 5:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Kent, Sussex	5 hr
Jun 14, 5:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	31 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2015 Every special weather statement in 2015

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.