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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Apr 1, 2016, 9:46 PM EDT for Atlantic County, New Jersey. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 2016, 9:46 PM EDT (01:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2016, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Atlantic County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:50 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 9:47 PM EDT | HAIL 0.25 | Mays Landing, NJ | PEA SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN MAYS LANDING. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 637 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.8
The text
As transmitted.
919
WWUS81 KPHI 020146
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
946 PM EDT FRI APR 1 2016
NJZ020-022-025>027-020230-
OCEAN-ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN-COASTAL ATLANTIC-SOUTHEASTERN
BURLINGTON-
946 PM EDT FRI APR 1 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL ATLANTIC...SOUTHEASTERN
OCEAN AND SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON COUNTIES...
AT 945 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER WEYMOUTH...OR 13 MILES
EAST OF VINELAND...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
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.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
POMONA AROUND 955 PM EDT.
ABSECON...EGG HARBOR CITY AND WADING RIVER AROUND 1000 PM EDT.
PORT REPUBLIC AND NEW GRETNA AROUND 1005 PM EDT.
TUCKERTON AND BASS RIVER STATE FOREST AROUND 1010 PM EDT.
BEACH HAVEN WEST AROUND 1020 PM EDT.
SURF CITY AROUND 1025 PM EDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE MANAHAWKIN...MYSTIC
ISLAND...FOLSOM AND OCEAN ACRES.
LAT...LON 3970 7418 3971 7413 3970 7413 3969 7419
3969 7414 3964 7417 3966 7422 3962 7419
3963 7426 3959 7423 3961 7420 3958 7422
3958 7434 3955 7427 3943 7434 3946 7445
3943 7444 3942 7483 3959 7484 3978 7410
TIME...MOT...LOC 0145Z 257DEG 44KT 3950 7475
$$
GORSEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 9:06 PM EDT | Storm Warning | PHI | 39 hr | |
| Apr 1, 9:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 53 min |
| Apr 2, 3:58 AM EDT | High Wind Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 10 more | 32 hr |
| Apr 2, 4:26 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | PHI | 8 hr | |
| Apr 2, 9:47 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | PHI | Chester, Montgomery | 23 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.