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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, 7:40 PM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 35 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, 7:40 PM EDT (23:40 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2016, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 153 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.

084 
WWUS81 KPHI 062340
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
740 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016
 
NJZ013-014-019-020-026-027-070015-
OCEAN-EASTERN MONMOUTH-WESTERN MONMOUTH-COASTAL OCEAN-SOUTHEASTERN
BURLINGTON-NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON-
740 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTH CENTRAL
MONMOUTH...OCEAN AND NORTHEASTERN BURLINGTON COUNTIES...

AT 739 PM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM NEAR MANTOLOKING TO JOBSTOWN...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...JACKSON...BARNEGAT...BEACHWOOD...
BURLINGTON...MANASQUAN...POINT PLEASANT BEACH...
PRESIDENTIAL LAKES ESTATES...SEASIDE HEIGHTS...LAKEHURST...
PEMBERTON...WRIGHTSTOWN...MANTOLOKING...PLEASANT PLAINS...
CEDAR GLEN WEST...HOLIDAY CITY SOUTH...WOODRUFF...
HOLIDAY CITY-BERKELEY AND PINE RIDGE AT CRESTWOOD.

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

LAT...LON 4006 7405 4006 7412 4005 7409 4005 7405
      3979 7410 4001 7409 3999 7414 3999 7411
      3981 7417 3977 7410 3980 7417 3975 7420
      3976 7410 3970 7416 3969 7414 3967 7422
      4007 7491 4011 7403
TIME...MOT...LOC 2339Z 297DEG 37KT 4004 7400 4001 7469 
$$

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, 7:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Ocean	50 min
Aug 6, 7:33 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		57 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.