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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2016, 12:51 AM EDT for Cumberland County, New Jersey. It was in force for 39 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
- Jul 5, 2016, 12:51 AM EDT (04:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2016, 1:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Cumberland County, NJ
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:52 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 152 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 737 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted.
875
WWUS81 KPHI 050451
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1251 AM EDT TUE JUL 5 2016
DEZ001-002-MDZ012-015-NJZ016-021-050530-
KENT-NEW CASTLE-KENT-QUEEN ANNE'S-SALEM-CUMBERLAND-
1251 AM EDT TUE JUL 5 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN NEW CASTLE...
NORTHERN KENT...NORTHEASTERN QUEEN ANNE'S...NORTHEASTERN KENT...
SOUTHWESTERN SALEM AND SOUTHWESTERN CUMBERLAND COUNTIES...
AT 1249 AM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER CLAYTON...OR 11 MILES
NORTHWEST OF DOVER...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DOVER...MILLVILLE...BRIDGETON...SMYRNA...CLAYTON...CHESWOLD...
GREENWICH...MILLINGTON...HARTLY...FORTESQUE...DOVER SPEEDWAY...
FAIRTON...GREEN SPRING...NEWPORT...DELANEY CORNER...MASSEY...
CEDARVILLE...DIVIDING CREEK...KENTON AND LITTLE CREEK.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WILL OCCUR WITH THIS SHOWER IN A VERY SHORT
PERIOD OF TIME...AND MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR
VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU SEE
LIGHTNING OR HEAR THUNDER SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR
VEHICLE.
LAT...LON 3934 7585 3939 7552 3935 7549 3933 7550
3934 7549 3931 7544 3935 7538 3940 7544
3941 7541 3945 7511 3921 7509 3922 7510
3918 7515 3922 7517 3921 7539 3916 7541
3917 7582
TIME...MOT...LOC 0449Z 263DEG 38KT 3927 7568
$$
ROBERTSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 3:23 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cumberland | 37 min |
| Jul 5, 3:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cumberland | 49 min |
| Jul 5, 3:41 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:55 PM EDT | Excessive Heat Watch | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer | 13 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:55 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer | 13 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:24 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks, Bucks, Montgomery | 51 min |
| Jul 5, 12:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 12:08 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 52 min |
| Jul 5, 2:36 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's | 54 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.