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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2015, 10:07 PM EDT for Cape May County, New Jersey. It was in force for 53 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, 10:07 PM EDT (02:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2015, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Cape May County, NJ
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:08 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 148 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.
961
WWUS81 KPHI 050207
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1007 PM EDT TUE AUG 4 2015
NJZ021>025-050300-
CAPE MAY-ATLANTIC-CUMBERLAND-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-COASTAL
ATLANTIC-
1007 PM EDT TUE AUG 4 2015
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN ATLANTIC...CAPE MAY AND
SOUTHEASTERN CUMBERLAND COUNTIES...
AT 1006 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR BIVALVE...OR 15 MILES
SOUTH OF MILLVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
OCEAN CITY...WOODBINE...SEA ISLE CITY...AVALON...STONE HARBOR...CAPE
MAY COURT HOUSE...SCOTCH BONNET...GOSHEN...ELDORA...BIVALVE...
BELLEPLAIN FOREST...MARMORA...PORT NORRIS...SEAVILLE...BEESLEYS
POINT...DENNISVILLE...LEESBURG AND STRATHMERE.
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.
LAT...LON 3920 7466 3910 7470 3905 7475 3905 7479
3907 7480 3906 7492 3914 7489 3918 7491
3919 7503 3922 7503 3921 7510 3918 7513
3925 7514 3929 7463 3927 7459 3930 7458
3929 7455
TIME...MOT...LOC 0206Z 268DEG 22KT 3917 7503
$$
SZATKOWSKIThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 8:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cumberland | 56 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
Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 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.