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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 16, 2015Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 16, 2015, 1:13 PM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 32 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 16, 2015, 1:13 PM EDT (17:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2015, 1:45 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 149 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2015-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2015-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
447 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 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.

466 
WWUS81 KPHI 161713
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
113 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 2015
 
NJZ014-020-026-161745-
EASTERN MONMOUTH-COASTAL OCEAN-OCEAN-
113 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 2015

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN MONMOUTH AND
NORTHEASTERN OCEAN COUNTIES...

AT 112 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER BEACHWOOD...OR NEAR
TOMS RIVER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TOMS RIVER...BEACHWOOD...POINT PLEASANT BEACH...SEASIDE HEIGHTS...
MANTOLOKING...HOLIDAY CITY SOUTH...BRICK TOWNSHIP...BAMBER LAKE...
PLEASANT PLAINS...HOLIDAY CITY-BERKELEY...DOVER BEACHES NORTH...DOVER
BEACHES SOUTH...LEISURE VILLAGE EAST...POINT PLEASANT...SOUTH TOMS
RIVER...ISLAND HEIGHTS...BAY HEAD...GILFORD PARK...HOLIDAY HEIGHTS
AND HOLIDAY CITY.

BRIEF TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND 
MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH 
FLOODED ROADWAYS.

LAT...LON 4005 7405 4006 7411 4001 7408 3979 7410
      4001 7409 3999 7414 3999 7411 3995 7411
      3993 7415 3992 7411 3981 7417 3977 7410
      3980 7417 3978 7418 3977 7411 3977 7423
      3992 7435 4009 7406 4009 7405
TIME...MOT...LOC 1712Z 241DEG 13KT 3989 7421 
$$

SFJ

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 8:13 AM EDTMarine Dense Fog AdvisoryPHI4 hr
Jun 16, 12:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex52 min
Jun 16, 1:27 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIMorris, Sussex, Warren4 hr
Jun 16, 2:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICumberland, Salem94 min
Jun 16, 2:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICumberland, Salem92 min
Jun 16, 3:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic2 hr
Jun 16, 3:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIAtlantic, Cape May, Cumberland44 min
Jun 16, 3:28 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI32 min
Jun 16, 3:54 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI2 hr
Jun 16, 4:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIPassaic61 min
Jun 16, 7:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBurlington52 min
Jun 15, 8:04 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBucks4 hr
Jun 15, 11:23 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPHINorthampton4 hr

Nearby

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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.