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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Oct 18, 2015, 6:30 PM EDT for Cape May County, New Jersey. It was in force for 45 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
- Oct 18, 2015, 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2015, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Cape May County, NJ
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1000 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
426
WWUS81 KPHI 182230
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
630 PM EDT SUN OCT 18 2015
NJZ023-024-182315-
CAPE MAY-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-
630 PM EDT SUN OCT 18 2015
...A THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN CAPE MAY COUNTY...
AT 629 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR GREEN CREEK...OR 10
MILES NORTH OF CAPE MAY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL OR GRAUPEL
ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CAPE MAY...NORTH WILDWOOD...WILDWOOD CREST...AVALON...WEST CAPE
MAY...RIO GRANDE...CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE...SCOTCH BONNET...GOSHEN...
DIAMOND BEACH...GREEN CREEK...NORTH CAPE MAY...VILLAS...WEST
WILDWOOD...ERMA AND WHITESBORO-BURLEIGH.
LAT...LON 3893 7497 3896 7496 3897 7494 3897 7496
3902 7495 3911 7489 3917 7489 3917 7484
3910 7471 3903 7480 3899 7479 3894 7486
TIME...MOT...LOC 2229Z 302DEG 23KT 3908 7497
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 2 hr | |
| Oct 18, 5:58 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 2 hr | |
| Oct 18, 6:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 31 min |
| Oct 18, 6:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cape May | 58 min |
| Oct 18, 3:22 AM EDT | Frost Advisory | PHI | Delaware, Philadelphia | 11 hr |
| Oct 18, 5:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Montgomery | 56 min |
| Oct 18, 5:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Caroline | 82 min |
| Oct 18, 4:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 69 min |
| Oct 18, 4:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 66 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.