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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 23, 2016Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 23, 2016, 5:43 PM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 62 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 23, 2016, 5:43 PM EDT (21:43 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2016, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 23, 6:22 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Galloway Twp, NJ	LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR.
Jul 23, 6:22 PM EDT	MARINE TSTM WIND 41	Tuckerton, NJ
Jul 23, 6:25 PM EDT	MARINE TSTM WIND 46	Little Sheepshead Creek, NJ

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 1872 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

419 
WWUS81 KPHI 232143
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
543 PM EDT SAT JUL 23 2016
 
NJZ018-020-022-025>027-232245-
OCEAN-ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN-COASTAL ATLANTIC-CAMDEN-SOUTHEASTERN
BURLINGTON-
543 PM EDT SAT JUL 23 2016

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN CAMDEN...
CENTRAL ATLANTIC...CENTRAL OCEAN AND SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON
COUNTIES...

AT 539 PM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM NEAR BROOKVILLE TO NEAR WHARTON STATE FOREST...AND
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TOMS RIVER...ATLANTIC CITY...BARNEGAT...PLEASANTVILLE...HAMMONTON...
BEACHWOOD...VENTNOR CITY...BRIGANTINE...ABSECON...EGG HARBOR CITY...
TUCKERTON...SURF CITY...PORT REPUBLIC...BROOKVILLE...CHATSWORTH...OLD
HALFWAY...NEW GRETNA...POMONA...PENN STATE FOREST AND WADING RIVER.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...
AND THE STORMS WILL AFFECT THE BEACHES. FOR YOUR SAFETY...
IMMEDIATELY MOVE OFF THE BEACH AND SEEK SHELTER INDOORS.

LAT...LON 3966 7418 3958 7434 3955 7427 3950 7434
      3956 7441 3941 7440 3943 7437 3949 7431
      3947 7431 3933 7448 3972 7479 3997 7417
      3985 7411 3989 7408 3988 7408
TIME...MOT...LOC 2139Z 320DEG 23KT 3982 7432 3969 7465 
$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 23, 4:12 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Hunterdon, Middlesex and 7 more	50 hr
Jul 23, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden	35 min
Jul 23, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Salem	28 min
Jul 23, 5:10 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		65 min
Jul 23, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester	51 min
Jul 23, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Ocean	65 min
Jul 23, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		85 min
Jul 23, 7:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic	34 min
Jul 23, 7:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland	27 min
Jul 23, 7:23 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		82 min
Jul 23, 3:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Chester	47 min
Jul 23, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Philadelphia	50 min
Jul 23, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester	47 min
Jul 23, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cecil, Kent	65 min
Jul 23, 6:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Caroline, Queen Anne's	44 min
Jul 23, 7:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent	29 min

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.