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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

April 3, 2016Cape May County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Apr 3, 2016, 12:08 AM EDT for Cape May County, New Jersey. It was in force for 22 min. 3 reports 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 3, 2016, 12:08 AM EDT (04:08 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2016, 12:30 AM EDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Cape May County, NJ

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:12 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 3, 12:20 AM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Dennisville, NJ	TREES DOWN.
Apr 3, 12:20 AM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Dennisville, NJ	TREES DOWN AND SHINGLES OFF OF HOME. A 32-FOOT CAMPER FLIPPED OVER. WIND GUST MEASURED TO 71 MPH.
Apr 3, 12:20 AM EDT	TSTM WND GST 71	Dennisville, NJ	71 MPH WIND GUST MEASURED ON HOME DAVIS WEATHER STATION.

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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 148 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.

963 
WWUS81 KPHI 030408
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1208 AM EDT SUN APR 3 2016
 
DEZ002>004-NJZ021>025-030430-
DELAWARE BEACHES-KENT-INLAND SUSSEX-CAPE
MAY-ATLANTIC-CUMBERLAND-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-COASTAL ATLANTIC-
1208 AM EDT SUN APR 3 2016

...A LINE OF SCATTERED HEAVY SHOWERS AND ISOLATED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN KENT... CENTRAL SUSSEX...CAPE
MAY...SOUTHEASTERN ATLANTIC AND SOUTHEASTERN CUMBERLAND COUNTIES...

AT 1207 AM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM NEAR BIVALVE TO NEAR SEAFORD...AND MOVING EAST AT
80 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.

THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  BIVALVE...LEESBURG AND PORT NORRIS AROUND 1210 AM EDT. 
  MILTON...WOODBINE...ESTELL MANOR...BELLEPLAIN FOREST...ELDORA AND 
  DENNISVILLE AROUND 1215 AM EDT. 
  LEWES AND SEAVILLE AROUND 1220 AM EDT. 
  OCEAN CITY...SOMERS POINT...CORBIN CITY...CAPE HENLOPEN STATE PARK...
  ENGLISH CREEK...BEESLEYS POINT AND MARMORA AROUND 1225 AM EDT. 
  ATLANTIC CITY...CAPE MAY...PLEASANTVILLE...VENTNOR CITY...BRIGANTINE...
  NORTHFIELD...ABSECON...MARGATE CITY...WEST CAPE MAY AND LONGPORT 
  AROUND 1230 AM EDT. 

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE WHITESBORO-BURLEIGH...
LINWOOD...ERMA...BLADES AND VILLAS.

LAT...LON 3860 7569 3899 7532 3882 7520 3893 7497
      3917 7490 3919 7514 3923 7510 3945 7446
      3940 7443 3946 7443 3947 7440 3944 7439
      3949 7431 3947 7434 3932 7450 3933 7468
      3929 7455 3876 7508
TIME...MOT...LOC 0407Z 248DEG 77KT 3920 7507 3869 7555 
$$

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, 10:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cumberland	37 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, 12:14 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.