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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

April 2, 2016Cumberland County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Apr 2, 2016, 10:08 PM EDT for Cumberland County, New Jersey. It was in force for 37 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 2, 2016, 10:08 PM EDT (02:08 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2016, 10:45 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Cumberland County, NJ

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 2, 10:54 PM EDT	HAIL 0.25	Estell Manor, NJ	PEA SIZE HAIL COVERNG THE GROUND.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 154 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 695 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

638 
WWUS81 KPHI 030208
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1008 PM EDT SAT APR 2 2016
 
DEZ001-002-MDZ008-012-015-NJZ016-021>023-030245-
KENT-NEW CASTLE-CECIL-KENT-QUEEN ANNE'S-SALEM-CAPE
MAY-ATLANTIC-CUMBERLAND-
1008 PM EDT SAT APR 2 2016

...A LINE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN NEW
CASTLE...NORTHERN KENT...NORTHEASTERN KENT...SOUTHEASTERN CECIL...
NORTHEASTERN QUEEN ANNE'S...NORTHWESTERN CAPE MAY...SOUTHWESTERN
ATLANTIC...SOUTHWESTERN SALEM AND CUMBERLAND COUNTIES...

AT 1006 PM EDT...A LINE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM MILLINGTON TO NEAR BELLEPLAIN FOREST. THE STORMS WERE
DRIFTING NORTHEAST.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.


THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
WOODBINE...LEESBURG...MAURICETOWN...ELDORA...BIVALVE AND PORT NORRIS
 AROUND 1010 PM EDT.   BELLEPLAIN FOREST AROUND 1015 PM EDT. 
BRICKSBORO AROUND 1025 PM EDT.   PORT ELIZABETH AROUND 1035 PM EDT. 
CUMBERLAND...LAUREL LAKE...ESTELL MANOR...CECILTON...SASSAFRAS...
WARWICK AND DOROTHY AROUND 1045 PM EDT. 

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE ODESSA...KENTON...
TOWNSEND...GALENA...CHAMBERSVILLE AND LEIPSIC.

THESE STORMS MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3946 7587 3946 7559 3942 7554 3946 7550
      3944 7469 3920 7485 3920 7502 3922 7503
      3920 7517 3924 7517 3927 7524 3930 7525
      3930 7531 3923 7540 3921 7540 3921 7595
TIME...MOT...LOC 0206Z 192DEG 4KT 3928 7585 3927 7493 
$$

DRAG

The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 9:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Mercer and 4 more	2 hr
Apr 2, 10:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Gloucester, Salem	88 min
Apr 2, 10:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic, Cumberland	33 min
Apr 2, 10:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Gloucester, Salem	39 min
Apr 2, 11:02 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		88 min
Apr 2, 11:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer, Salem	51 min
Apr 2, 11:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem	51 min
Apr 2, 11:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		65 min
Apr 2, 11:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, Somerset	34 min
Apr 3, 12:08 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cape May	22 min
Apr 3, 12:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Ocean	31 min
Apr 3, 12:19 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Union	26 min
Apr 3, 12:23 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		52 min
Apr 3, 12:30 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		60 min
Apr 3, 12:39 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monmouth	21 min
Apr 3, 12:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monmouth, Ocean	14 min
Apr 3, 12:52 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Ocean	8 min
Apr 3, 1:12 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		33 min
Apr 3, 5:45 AM EDT	Low Water Advisory	PHI		9 hr
Apr 3, 11:34 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 10 more	4 hr
Apr 3, 11:37 AM EDT	Gale Warning	PHI		4 hr
Apr 3, 3:07 PM EDT	Low Water Advisory	PHI		113 min
Apr 3, 3:40 PM EDT	Freeze Watch	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 5 more	12 hr
Apr 3, 3:54 PM EDT	Gale Watch	PHI		12 hr
Apr 3, 3:54 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	PHI		5 hr

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.