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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 9, 2016Salem County, New Jersey; New Castle County, Delaware

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2016, 4:47 PM EDT for Salem County, New Jersey; New Castle County, Delaware. It was in force for 43 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 9, 2016, 4:47 PM EDT (20:47 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2016, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties New Castle County, DE, Salem County, NJ

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -183 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1248 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

975 
WWUS81 KPHI 092047
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
447 PM EDT SAT JUL 9 2016
 
DEZ001-NJZ016-017-021-PAZ102-092130-
NEW CASTLE-SALEM-CUMBERLAND-GLOUCESTER-EASTERN CHESTER-
447 PM EDT SAT JUL 9 2016

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT NEW CASTLE...WEST
CENTRAL GLOUCESTER...SALEM...NORTHWESTERN CUMBERLAND AND SOUTHEASTERN
CHESTER COUNTIES...

AT 446 PM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM PENNS GROVE TO NEAR HOPE CREEK...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 15 MPH.

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

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WILMINGTON...BRIDGETON...GLASSBORO...PENNSVILLE...CARNEYS
POINT...ELSMERE...
NEW CASTLE...PENNS GROVE...SALEM...WOODSTOWN...ALLOWAY...QUINTON...
SWEDESBORO...DELAWARE
CITY...ELMER...NEWPORT...GREENWICH...SHILOH...ARDEN
AND HANCOCKS BRIDGE.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

THESE STORMS MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3984 7561 3972 7515 3955 7516 3931 7523
      3934 7537 3944 7546 3946 7554 3957 7551
      3962 7557 3966 7552 3972 7551 3962 7561
      3959 7556 3959 7557 3946 7559 3937 7552
      3939 7562 3975 7575
TIME...MOT...LOC 2046Z 302DEG 15KT 3972 7544 3943 7552 
$$

JRK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 8:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington	4 hr
Jul 9, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Gloucester, Salem	50 min
Jul 9, 4:08 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		67 min
Jul 9, 4:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Gloucester, Salem	4 hr
Jul 9, 6:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Salem	34 min
Jul 9, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Cumberland, Salem	44 min
Jul 9, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		57 min
Jul 9, 6:43 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Cumberland, Salem	4 hr
Jul 9, 7:07 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		53 min
Jul 9, 7:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cape May, Cumberland	33 min
Jul 9, 7:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Warren	57 min
Jul 9, 12:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks	25 min
Jul 9, 12:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks	31 min
Jul 9, 1:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks	48 min
Jul 9, 2:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Chester	50 min
Jul 9, 3:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester, Delaware	43 min
Jul 9, 4:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline, Talbot	57 min
Jul 9, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot	30 min
Jul 9, 2:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	22 min
Jul 9, 3:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	62 min
Jul 9, 4:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	New Castle	34 min
Jul 9, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	New Castle	29 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2016 Special Weather Statements in Delaware, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.