Alert archive / New Jersey / Wind Advisories in 2015
Wind Advisory 1, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this wind advisory at Jan 4, 2015, 3:31 PM EST for Sussex County, Delaware; 4 counties in New Jersey. It took effect at Jan 4, 2015, 8:00 PM EST. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 4, 2015, 3:31 PM EST (20:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 4, 2015, 8:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 5, 2015, 1:00 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Sussex County, DE, Atlantic County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 1204 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
951 WWUS71 KPHI 042031 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 331 PM EST SUN JAN 4 2015 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-050600- /O.NEW.KPHI.WI.Y.0001.150105T0100Z-150105T0600Z/ DELAWARE BEACHES-EASTERN MONMOUTH-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY- COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...REHOBOTH BEACH...SANDY HOOK... OCEAN CITY...ATLANTIC CITY...LONG BEACH ISLAND 331 PM EST SUN JAN 4 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING TO 1 AM EST MONDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING TO 1 AM EST MONDAY. * WINDS...WEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT WITH THE STRONGEST WINDS OCCURRING ALONG AND JUST BEHIND A COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE. IN ADDITION... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY ACCOMPANY THE FRONT. * IMPACTS...THE WINDY CONDITIONS COULD LEAD TO DIFFICULT TRAVEL CONDITIONS... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. IN ADDITION... ANY OUTDOOR OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH CANS... AND DECORATIONS... SHOULD BE SECURED AS THEY CAN BE PICKED UP IN THE GUSTY WINDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... MOTORISTS SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION...ESPECIALLY THOSE IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. LIGHT-WEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS SUCH AS PATIO FURNITURE AND GARBAGE CANS SHOULD BE SECURED. && $$ MEOLA
1 follow-up statement
812 WWUS71 KPHI 050608 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 108 AM EST MON JAN 5 2015 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-050715- /O.EXP.KPHI.WI.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-150105T0600Z/ DELAWARE BEACHES-EASTERN MONMOUTH-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY- COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...REHOBOTH BEACH...SANDY HOOK... OCEAN CITY...ATLANTIC CITY...LONG BEACH ISLAND 108 AM EST MON JAN 5 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THERE COULD STILL BE SOME GUSTS IN THE 30 TO 40 MPH RANGE EARLY THIS MORNING BEFORE A DECREASE IS EXPECTED BY LATE MORNING. $$ HEAVENER
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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.