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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

April 26, 2016Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Apr 26, 2016, 2:04 AM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 41 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 26, 2016, 2:04 AM EDT (06:04 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2016, 2:45 AM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 1798 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

633 
WWUS81 KPHI 260604
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
204 AM EDT TUE APR 26 2016
 
NJZ014-019-020-026-027-260645-
OCEAN-EASTERN MONMOUTH-COASTAL OCEAN-SOUTHEASTERN
BURLINGTON-NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON-
204 AM EDT TUE APR 26 2016

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN
MONMOUTH...CENTRAL OCEAN AND EAST CENTRAL BURLINGTON COUNTIES...

AT 204 AM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM CEDAR GLEN LAKES TO 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SURF CITY...
AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  TOMS RIVER AND BEACHWOOD AROUND 225 AM EDT. 
  SEASIDE HEIGHTS...LEISURE VILLAGE AND LEISURE VILLAGE EAST AROUND 
  230 AM EDT. 
  DOVER BEACHES NORTH...DOVER BEACHES SOUTH AND BRICK TOWNSHIP AROUND 
  235 AM EDT. 
  POINT PLEASANT BEACH AND MANTOLOKING AROUND 240 AM EDT. 

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE CRESTWOOD VILLAGE...
GILFORD PARK...HOLIDAY HEIGHTS...HOLIDAY CITY...LEISURE KNOLL...SOUTH
TOMS RIVER...COUNTRY LAKE ESTATES...MANAHAWKIN...ISLAND HEIGHTS AND
SILVER RIDGE.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY
CAUSE PONDING OF POOR DRAINAGE AND LOW LYING AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE
YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT 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.

LAT...LON 4006 7412 4005 7405 3979 7410 4001 7409
      3999 7414 3999 7411 3975 7420 3974 7419
      3974 7417 3976 7410 3975 7410 3963 7426
      3958 7422 3994 7459 4011 7403
TIME...MOT...LOC 0604Z 257DEG 33KT 3995 7442 3954 7398 
$$

ROBERTSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 12:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Camden, Gloucester, Salem	41 min
Apr 26, 12:54 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Ocean	66 min
Apr 26, 12:56 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester	49 min
Apr 26, 1:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Ocean	42 min
Apr 26, 1:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Warren	47 min
Apr 26, 2:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Morris, Warren	35 min
Apr 26, 2:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset	60 min
Apr 26, 3:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Morris, Somerset	45 min
Apr 26, 3:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monmouth	43 min
Apr 26, 3:32 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		58 min
Apr 26, 3:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington, Camden	24 min
Apr 26, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington	31 min
Apr 26, 4:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Ocean	23 min
Apr 26, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Ocean	26 min
Apr 26, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		35 min
Apr 26, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Mercer	33 min
Apr 26, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth, Ocean	28 min
Apr 26, 6:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester	38 min
Apr 26, 5:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Chester	22 min
Apr 26, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester, Delaware, Montgomery	41 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.