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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

April 7, 2016Middlesex County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Apr 7, 2016, 1:49 PM EDT for Middlesex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 56 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 7, 2016, 1:49 PM EDT (17:49 UTC)
Expired: Apr 7, 2016, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Middlesex County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 14 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 888 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 310 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 360 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

907 
WWUS81 KPHI 071749
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
149 PM EDT THU APR 7 2016
 
NJZ008-010-012>015-020-071845-
OCEAN-SOMERSET-MORRIS-EASTERN MONMOUTH-WESTERN
MONMOUTH-MERCER-MIDDLESEX-
149 PM EDT THU APR 7 2016

...A LINE OF SHOWERS WILL AFFECT EASTERN MERCER...CENTRAL
MONMOUTH... SOUTHEASTERN SOMERSET...SOUTHEASTERN
MORRIS...MIDDLESEX AND NORTHWESTERN OCEAN COUNTIES...

AT 148 PM EDT...A LINE OF SHOWERS WAS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM
PRINCETON TO NEAR CROSSWICKS TO NEAR GEORGETOWN...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH.

LOCAL WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE HEAVY SHOWERS.

BRIEFLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS LINE...AND MAY
CAUSE MINOR LOCALIZED FLOODING.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... NEW BRUNSWICK...PERTH AMBOY...SANDY
HOOK...SOMERSET...EDISON...MIDDLETOWN... OLD BRIDGE...EAST
BRUNSWICK...SOUTH BRUNSWICK...SAYREVILLE...NORTH
BRUNSWICK...MARLBORO...MANALAPAN...CARTERET...HOLMDEL...MIDDLESEX...
PRINCETON...RED BANK...BOUND BROOK AND MATAWAN.

LAT...LON 4009 7456 4013 7458 4016 7464 4040 7469
      4072 7439 4060 7446 4060 7421 4056 7421
      4055 7425 4050 7428 4047 7427 4041 7403
      4044 7400 4044 7399 4048 7402 4048 7401
      4044 7398 4042 7400 4039 7398
TIME...MOT...LOC 1748Z 207DEG 55KT 4034 7468 4019 7464 4012 7466 
$$

GORSE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 8:07 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	PHI	Salem	5 hr
Apr 7, 3:30 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 3 more	12 hr
Apr 7, 3:41 AM EDT	Gale Warning	PHI		14 hr
Apr 7, 12:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem	38 min
Apr 7, 1:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester	54 min
Apr 7, 1:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren	56 min
Apr 7, 3:33 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	PHI		33 hr
Apr 7, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		39 min
Apr 7, 3:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cape May	49 min
Apr 7, 4:24 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		51 min
Apr 7, 6:42 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		48 min
Apr 7, 7:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland	37 min
Apr 7, 7:29 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		46 min
Apr 7, 7:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Ocean	50 min
Apr 7, 12:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester, Delaware	37 min
Apr 7, 1:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Bucks, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia	42 min
Apr 7, 10:49 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot	86 min
Apr 7, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent	44 min
Apr 7, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot	42 min
Apr 7, 3:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	44 min
Apr 7, 6:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	New Castle	56 min
Apr 7, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent, Sussex	48 min
Apr 7, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, New Castle, Sussex	38 min

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.