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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 16, 2015Cumberland County, Salem County, New Jersey; New Castle County, Delaware

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.

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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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2015-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 252 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2015-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 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
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

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The text

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

128 
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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 8:13 AM EDTMarine Dense Fog AdvisoryPHI4 hr
Jun 16, 12:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex52 min
Jun 16, 1:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIOcean32 min
Jun 16, 1:27 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIMorris, Sussex, Warren4 hr
Jun 16, 2:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICumberland, Salem94 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

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.