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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2015, 8:04 PM EDT for Cumberland County, New Jersey. It was in force for 56 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, 8:04 PM EDT (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2015, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Cumberland County, NJ
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 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
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 961 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1098 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
587
WWUS81 KPHI 050004
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
804 PM EDT TUE AUG 4 2015
DEZ001-002-NJZ016-021-050100-
KENT-NEW CASTLE-SALEM-CUMBERLAND-
804 PM EDT TUE AUG 4 2015
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN NEW CASTLE...
NORTHERN KENT...SOUTHWESTERN SALEM AND SOUTHWESTERN CUMBERLAND
COUNTIES...
AT 802 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER GREEN SPRING...OR 8
MILES SOUTHEAST OF MIDDLETOWN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MILLVILLE...BRIDGETON...MIDDLETOWN...SMYRNA...CLAYTON...GREENWICH...
FORTESQUE...WOODLAND BEACH...FAIRTON...NEWPORT MEADOWS...GREEN
SPRING...NEWPORT...CEDARVILLE...TOWNSEND...LEIPSIC AND CHAMBERSVILLE.
LAT...LON 3944 7556 3935 7549 3940 7543 3944 7548
3946 7514 3923 7510 3923 7517 3927 7524
3930 7525 3929 7529 3934 7535 3928 7542
3925 7540 3924 7542 3925 7572 3943 7573
TIME...MOT...LOC 0002Z 268DEG 22KT 3935 7564
$$
SZATKOWSKIThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 10:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cape May | 53 min |
| Aug 4, 10:30 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Cape May | 4 hr |
| Aug 4, 10:40 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 50 min | |
| Aug 4, 10:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cape May | 19 min |
| Aug 4, 11:22 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 53 min | |
| Aug 4, 10:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Talbot | 31 min |
| Aug 4, 11:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Caroline, Talbot | 50 min |
| Aug 4, 11:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Caroline, Talbot | 32 min |
| Aug 4, 9:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | New Castle | 59 min |
| Aug 4, 10:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 51 min |
| Aug 4, 11:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 24 min |
| Aug 4, 11:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 4 hr |
| Aug 4, 11:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Sussex | 4 hr |
| Aug 4, 11:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 47 min |
| Aug 5, 12:04 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 41 min |
| Aug 5, 12:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Sussex | 4 hr |
| Aug 5, 12:52 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 23 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.