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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2015, 10:56 PM EDT for Cape May County, New Jersey. It was in force for 19 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, 10:56 PM EDT (02:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2015, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Cape May County, NJ
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:56 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 133 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.
858
WWUS81 KPHI 050256
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1056 PM EDT TUE AUG 4 2015
NJZ023-024-050315-
CAPE MAY-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-
1056 PM EDT TUE AUG 4 2015
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN CAPE MAY COUNTY...
AT 1056 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER RIO GRANDE...OR NEAR
CAPE MAY...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
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...AND THE STORM WILL AFFECT THE BEACHES. FOR YOUR
SAFETY...IMMEDIATELY MOVE OFF THE BEACH AND SEEK SHELTER INDOORS.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
SCOTCH BONNET AROUND 1100 PM EDT.
NORTH WILDWOOD...AVALON AND STONE HARBOR AROUND 1105 PM EDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE WHITESBORO-BURLEIGH...
ERMA...WEST WILDWOOD AND VILLAS.
LAT...LON 3896 7496 3897 7494 3897 7496 3913 7489
3911 7478 3909 7480 3908 7477 3909 7475
3911 7476 3909 7473 3910 7473 3910 7471
3903 7479 3899 7479 3894 7486 3893 7492
TIME...MOT...LOC 0256Z 286DEG 34KT 3903 7486
$$
ROBERTSONThe 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, 10:07 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, 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.