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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 4, 2015Monmouth County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2015, 5:25 AM EDT for Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was in force for 65 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: Aug 4, 2015, 5:25 AM EDT (09:25 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2015, 6:30 AM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Monmouth County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 1050 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1110 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 4.5

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The text

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

352 
WWUS81 KPHI 040925
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
525 AM EDT TUE AUG 4 2015
 
NJZ013>015-019-020-026-027-PAZ106-041030-
OCEAN-EASTERN MONMOUTH-WESTERN MONMOUTH-COASTAL
OCEAN-MERCER-SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON-NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON-LOWER
BUCKS-
525 AM EDT TUE AUG 4 2015

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTH CENTRAL MERCER...
MONMOUTH...NORTHERN CAMDEN...NORTHERN OCEAN...NORTHERN BURLINGTON...
SOUTHEASTERN BUCKS AND EASTERN PHILADELPHIA COUNTIES...

AT 524 AM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER MOUNT LAUREL...OR 10
MILES EAST OF CAMDEN...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

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

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TOMS RIVER...LONG BRANCH...ASBURY PARK...LAKEWOOD...JACKSON...
HOWELL...EVESHAM...MOUNT LAUREL...WILLINGBORO...MEDFORD...TINTON
FALLS...LUMBERTON...RED BANK...FLORENCE...BURLINGTON...BRISTOL...
MOUNT HOLLY...RIVERSIDE...PALMYRA AND MANASQUAN.

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

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

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 4035 7399 4034 7402 4033 7398 4007 7404
      4006 7412 3995 7447 3982 7491 3988 7493
      3994 7498 3995 7502 3998 7501 4001 7505
      4002 7501 4006 7498 4037 7397 4035 7397
TIME...MOT...LOC 0924Z 248DEG 45KT 3995 7491 
$$

HEAVENER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 2:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset	53 min
Aug 4, 2:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Morris, Warren	60 min
Aug 4, 2:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset	64 min
Aug 4, 3:33 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		57 min
Aug 4, 3:36 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Morris	24 min
Aug 4, 4:12 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Gloucester	63 min
Aug 4, 4:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Gloucester, Salem	33 min
Aug 4, 10:53 AM EDT	Rip Current Statement	PHI	Cape May	4 hr
Aug 4, 12:06 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Chester	54 min
Aug 4, 12:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Bucks, Chester, Montgomery, Philadelphia	60 min
Aug 4, 1:23 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks	37 min
Aug 4, 1:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks	44 min
Aug 4, 1:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon	48 min
Aug 4, 1:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton	50 min
Aug 4, 5:18 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent, Queen Anne's	57 min
Aug 4, 5:37 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's	34 min
Aug 4, 6:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	64 min
Aug 4, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex	20 min

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.