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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 16, 2015, 2:13 PM EDT for Cumberland County, Salem County, New Jersey; New Castle County, Delaware. It was in force for 92 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, 2:13 PM EDT (18:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2015, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 92 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties New Castle County, DE, Cumberland County, NJ, Salem County, NJ
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 55 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 252 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1135 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS81 KPHI 161813 CCA
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
213 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 2015
DEZ001-NJZ016-017-021-022-161945-
NEW CASTLE-ATLANTIC-GLOUCESTER-CUMBERLAND-SALEM-
213 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 2015
...A HEAVY SHOWER WILL AFFECT NORTHERN NEW CASTLE...WEST CENTRAL
ATLANTIC...SALEM...SOUTHERN GLOUCESTER AND CUMBERLAND COUNTIES...
AT 211 PM EDT...A SHOWER WAS OVER NEW CASTLE...OR NEAR WILMINGTON...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WILMINGTON...VINELAND...MILLVILLE...BRIDGETON...CUMBERLAND...
PENNSVILLE...CLAYTON...CARNEYS POINT...ELSMERE...NEW CASTLE...PENNS
GROVE...SALEM...BUENA...LAUREL LAKE...WOODSTOWN...ALLOWAY...
WEYMOUTH...QUINTON...DELAWARE CITY AND NEWFIELD.
LAT...LON 3982 7558 3952 7475 3926 7501 3949 7553
3954 7554 3957 7551 3961 7552 3971 7549
3972 7551 3962 7561 3959 7561 3959 7557
3958 7558 3951 7557 3957 7578
TIME...MOT...LOC 1811Z 296DEG 25KT 3967 7556
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 8:13 AM EDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | PHI | 4 hr | |
| Jun 16, 12:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 52 min |
| Jun 16, 1:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 32 min |
| Jun 16, 1:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Morris, Sussex, Warren | 4 hr |
| Jun 16, 2:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cumberland, Salem | 94 min |
| Jun 16, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland | 44 min |
| Jun 16, 3:28 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 32 min | |
| Jun 16, 3:54 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 2 hr | |
| Jun 16, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Passaic | 61 min |
| Jun 16, 7:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington | 52 min |
| Jun 15, 8:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Bucks | 4 hr |
| Jun 15, 11:23 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | PHI | Northampton | 4 hr |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2015Special Weather Statements in Delaware, 2015Every 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.