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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 1, 2016Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 1, 2016, 7:26 AM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 49 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: Aug 1, 2016, 7:26 AM EDT (11:26 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 2016, 8:15 AM EDT
In force: 49 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 11:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 51 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 553 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

As transmitted.

313 
WWUS81 KPHI 011126
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
726 AM EDT MON AUG 1 2016
 
NJZ014-020-026-011215-
OCEAN-EASTERN MONMOUTH-COASTAL OCEAN-
726 AM EDT MON AUG 1 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN MONMOUTH AND
NORTHEASTERN OCEAN COUNTIES...

AT 725 AM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER BAMBER LAKE...OR NEAR
TOMS RIVER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TOMS RIVER...BEACHWOOD...MANASQUAN...POINT PLEASANT BEACH...
SEASIDE HEIGHTS...MANTOLOKING...PLEASANT PLAINS...
HOLIDAY CITY SOUTH...BRICK TOWNSHIP...LEISURE VILLAGE...
HOLIDAY CITY-BERKELEY...PINE RIDGE AT CRESTWOOD...
DOVER BEACHES SOUTH...LEISURE VILLAGE WEST-PINE LAKE PARK...
LEISURE VILLAGE EAST...BAMBER LAKE...DOVER BEACHES NORTH...
POINT PLEASANT...BRIELLE AND SOUTH TOMS RIVER.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

LAT...LON 3983 7409 3994 7409 3999 7407 4001 7409
      3999 7414 3999 7411 3995 7411 3993 7415
      3992 7411 3990 7414 3986 7413 3980 7417
      3978 7429 3994 7440 4012 7404
TIME...MOT...LOC 1125Z 240DEG 10KT 3990 7427 
$$

SFJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 31, 8:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	PHI	Somerset	4 hr
Jul 31, 8:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Morris	4 hr
Aug 1, 3:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Salem	87 min
Aug 1, 3:56 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		64 min
Aug 1, 3:56 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		64 min
Aug 1, 5:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Cumberland	4 hr
Aug 1, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		66 min
Aug 1, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cumberland, Salem	35 min
Jul 31, 10:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks	57 min
Jul 31, 11:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh	37 min
Aug 1, 4:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monroe	52 min
Aug 1, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon	66 min
Aug 1, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon	46 min
Aug 1, 6:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh	22 min
Aug 1, 1:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cecil	94 min
Aug 1, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Queen Anne's, Talbot	62 min
Aug 1, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot	53 min
Aug 1, 2:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Sussex	4 hr
Aug 1, 3:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	84 min
Aug 1, 6:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Sussex	4 hr

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.