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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 6, 2016Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2016, 7:10 PM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 50 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 6, 2016, 7:10 PM EDT (23:10 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2016, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 252 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 685 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

As transmitted.

220 
WWUS81 KPHI 062310
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
710 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016
 
NJZ013-015-019-020-026-027-PAZ106-070000-
OCEAN-WESTERN MONMOUTH-COASTAL OCEAN-MERCER-SOUTHEASTERN
BURLINGTON-NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON-LOWER BUCKS-
710 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN MERCER...
SOUTHWESTERN MONMOUTH...OCEAN...NORTHERN BURLINGTON...SOUTHEASTERN
BUCKS AND NORTHEASTERN PHILADELPHIA COUNTIES...

AT 710 PM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM ALLENTOWN TO RIVERSIDE...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45
MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TOMS RIVER...LAKEWOOD...BENSALEM...JACKSON...BARNEGAT...FLORENCE...
BEACHWOOD...BURLINGTON...BRISTOL...MOUNT HOLLY...BORDENTOWN...
PRESIDENTIAL LAKES ESTATES...SEASIDE HEIGHTS...LAKEHURST...BEVERLY...
TULLYTOWN...ALLENTOWN...PEMBERTON...WRIGHTSTOWN AND MANTOLOKING.

LAT...LON 4001 7408 3979 7410 4001 7409 3999 7414
      3999 7411 3993 7415 3992 7411 3981 7417
      3977 7410 3980 7417 3978 7418 3977 7412
      3968 7434 4008 7496 4012 7497 4021 7454
      4006 7408 4006 7412 4005 7411 4005 7404
TIME...MOT...LOC 2310Z 297DEG 40KT 4017 7459 4005 7494 
$$

SFJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 2:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	36 min
Aug 6, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Morris, Sussex, Warren	40 min
Aug 6, 3:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset	39 min
Aug 6, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset	50 min
Aug 6, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Middlesex, Monmouth	50 min
Aug 6, 5:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Mercer	50 min
Aug 6, 5:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monmouth	49 min
Aug 6, 6:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester	4 hr
Aug 6, 6:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Mercer	23 min
Aug 6, 7:33 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		57 min
Aug 6, 7:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Ocean	35 min
Aug 6, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh	34 min
Aug 6, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks	30 min
Aug 6, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Montgomery	24 min
Aug 6, 4:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh	35 min
Aug 6, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks, Lehigh, Northampton	46 min
Aug 6, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks	34 min
Aug 6, 5:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Montgomery	34 min
Aug 6, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia	35 min
Aug 6, 6:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent	26 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.