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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

April 3, 2016Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Apr 3, 2016, 12:52 AM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 8 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 3, 2016, 12:52 AM EDT (04:52 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2016, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 8 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 31 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

983 
WWUS81 KPHI 030452
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1252 AM EDT SUN APR 3 2016
 
NJZ020-026-030500-
OCEAN-COASTAL OCEAN-
1252 AM EDT SUN APR 3 2016

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN OCEAN
COUNTY...

AT 1252 AM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM SEASIDE HEIGHTS TO 7 MILES EAST OF BARNEGAT TO NEAR
SURF CITY...AND MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SURF CITY AND BEACH HAVEN WEST. 

LAT...LON 3977 7410 3976 7413 3975 7410 3972 7412
      3975 7412 3974 7415 3971 7416 3971 7413
      3970 7416 3967 7419 3969 7414 3961 7420
      3963 7422 3953 7427 3966 7423 3980 7410
      3988 7408
TIME...MOT...LOC 0452Z 280DEG 42KT 3992 7406 3974 7409 3960 7417 
$$

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, 12:08 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.