Alert archive / New Jersey / Frost Advisories in 2016
Frost Advisory 1, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this frost advisory at Apr 13, 2016, 3:19 AM EDT for 6 counties in New Jersey. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 13, 2016, 3:19 AM EDT (07:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 2016, 7:59 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Atlantic County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:22 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 1559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
375 WWUS71 KPHI 130719 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 319 AM EDT WED APR 13 2016 NJZ001-007>010-PAZ060>062-101-103-105-131200- /O.CON.KPHI.FZ.W.0005.000000T0000Z-160413T1200Z/ SUSSEX-WARREN-MORRIS-HUNTERDON-SOMERSET-BERKS-LEHIGH-NORTHAMPTON- WESTERN CHESTER-WESTERN MONTGOMERY-UPPER BUCKS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWTON...WASHINGTON...MORRISTOWN... FLEMINGTON...SOMERVILLE...READING...ALLENTOWN...BETHLEHEM... EASTON...HONEY BROOK...OXFORD...COLLEGEVILLE...POTTSTOWN... CHALFONT...PERKASIE 319 AM EDT WED APR 13 2016 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING... * TEMPERATURES...FALLING INTO THE LOWER 30S. * TIMING...BETWEEN NOW AND 800 AM TODAY * IMPACTS...TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO FALL AROUND OR BELOW FREEZING ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. SENSITIVE PLANTS COULD BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED IF NOT PROTECTED OR BROUGHT INSIDE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$ NJZ013-017>020-022-027-131200- /O.NEW.KPHI.FR.Y.0001.160413T0719Z-160413T1200Z/ WESTERN MONMOUTH-GLOUCESTER-CAMDEN-NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON-OCEAN- ATLANTIC-SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FREEHOLD...GLASSBORO...CAMDEN... CHERRY HILL...MOORESTOWN...MOUNT HOLLY...JACKSON...HAMMONTON... WHARTON STATE FOREST 319 AM EDT WED APR 13 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING. * TEMPERATURE...LOWS BETWEEN 28 AND 33 DEGREES BY 7 AM TODAY. THERE WILL BE FROST OR FREEZING TEMPERATURES EARLY TODAY IN MUCH OF THIS WARNED AREA OF EASTERN AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. * IMPACTS...WHATEVER CAN BE DONE ON SHORT NOTICE SHOULD OCCUR NOW. SENSITIVE PLANTS COULD BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED IF NOT PROTECTED OR BROUGHT INSIDE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
2 follow-up statements
923 WWUS71 KPHI 130931 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 531 AM EDT WED APR 13 2016 NJZ001-007>010-PAZ060>062-101-103-105-131200- /O.CON.KPHI.FZ.W.0005.000000T0000Z-160413T1200Z/ SUSSEX-WARREN-MORRIS-HUNTERDON-SOMERSET-BERKS-LEHIGH-NORTHAMPTON- WESTERN CHESTER-WESTERN MONTGOMERY-UPPER BUCKS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWTON...WASHINGTON...MORRISTOWN... FLEMINGTON...SOMERVILLE...READING...ALLENTOWN...BETHLEHEM... EASTON...HONEY BROOK...OXFORD...COLLEGEVILLE...POTTSTOWN... CHALFONT...PERKASIE 531 AM EDT WED APR 13 2016 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING... * TEMPERATURES...LOWS 28 TO 33 DEGREES THROUGHOUT THIS WARNING REGION OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY. AT 5 AM TEMPERATURES WERE BOUNCING AROUND BUT ALREADY HAVE BEEN DOWN TO FREEZING AT ALLENTOWN, QUAKERTOWN, AND POTTSTOWN IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA, INCLUDING MANY SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES. FURTHERMORE, WIDESPREAD SUBFREEZING TEMPERATURES HAVE OCCURRED IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY FROM SUSSEX COUNTY DOWN INTO NORTHWEST WARREN COUNTY, WITH A LOW OF 23 SO FAR AT WALPACK. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE PLANTS COULD BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED IF NOT PROTECTED OR BROUGHT INSIDE. * OUTLOOK...A FROST OR FREEZE WARNING MAY BE ISSUED LATER TODAY FOR LATE THIS COMING WEDNESDAY NIGHT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$ NJZ013-017>020-022-027-131200- /O.CON.KPHI.FR.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-160413T1200Z/ WESTERN MONMOUTH-GLOUCESTER-CAMDEN-NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON-OCEAN- ATLANTIC-SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FREEHOLD...GLASSBORO...CAMDEN... CHERRY HILL...MOORESTOWN...MOUNT HOLLY...JACKSON...HAMMONTON... WHARTON STATE FOREST 531 AM EDT WED APR 13 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING... * TEMPERATURES...LOWS BETWEEN 28 AND 33 DEGREES BY SUNRISE TODAY. THERE WILL BE FROST OR FREEZING TEMPERATURES EARLY TODAY IN MUCH OF THIS WARNED AREA OF EASTERN AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. ALREADY SUBFREEZING READINGS HAVE OCCURRED AT TOMS RIVER AND LAKEHURST AS WELL AS MANY SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES FROM WESTERN MONMOUTH COUNTY DOWN THROUGH INTERIOR OCEAN COUNTY, THE EAST TWO THIRDS OF BURLINGTON COUNTY INTO EASTERN PORTIONS OF CAMDEN AND GLOUCESTER COUNTIES. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE PLANTS COULD BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED IF NOT PROTECTED OR BROUGHT INSIDE. * OUTLOOK...A FROST OR FREEZE WARNING MAY BE ISSUED LATER TODAY FOR LATE THIS COMING WEDNESDAY NIGHT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ DRAG
279 WWUS71 KPHI 131159 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 759 AM EDT WED APR 13 2016 NJZ001-007>010-PAZ060>062-101-103-105-131300- /O.CAN.KPHI.FZ.W.0005.000000T0000Z-160413T1200Z/ SUSSEX-WARREN-MORRIS-HUNTERDON-SOMERSET-BERKS-LEHIGH-NORTHAMPTON- WESTERN CHESTER-WESTERN MONTGOMERY-UPPER BUCKS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWTON...WASHINGTON...MORRISTOWN... FLEMINGTON...SOMERVILLE...READING...ALLENTOWN...BETHLEHEM... EASTON...HONEY BROOK...OXFORD...COLLEGEVILLE...POTTSTOWN... CHALFONT...PERKASIE 759 AM EDT WED APR 13 2016 ...FREEZE WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS CANCELLED THE FREEZE WARNING. $$ NJZ013-017>020-022-027-131300- /O.CAN.KPHI.FR.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-160413T1200Z/ WESTERN MONMOUTH-GLOUCESTER-CAMDEN-NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON-OCEAN- ATLANTIC-SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FREEHOLD...GLASSBORO...CAMDEN... CHERRY HILL...MOORESTOWN...MOUNT HOLLY...JACKSON...HAMMONTON... WHARTON STATE FOREST 759 AM EDT WED APR 13 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS CANCELLED THE FROST ADVISORY. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 12:37 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | PHI | 4 days | |
| Apr 13, 3:28 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 9 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 13, 6:30 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | PHI | Mercer | 13 hr |
| Apr 13, 6:30 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 9 more | 13 hr |
Nearby
Frost Advisories in New Jersey, 2016Every frost advisory in 2016
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.