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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 14, 2016, 11:13 PM EDT for Cape May County, New Jersey. It was in force for 17 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 14, 2016, 11:13 PM EDT (03:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2016, 11:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Cape May County, NJ
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:15 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 133 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3071 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1317 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
636
WWUS81 KPHI 150313
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1113 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2016
NJZ021-023-024-150330-
CAPE MAY-CUMBERLAND-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-
1113 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CAPE MAY AND SOUTHEASTERN
CUMBERLAND COUNTIES...
AT 1113 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER CAPE MAY COURT
HOUSE... OR 8 MILES NORTH OF CAPE MAY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CAPE MAY...NORTH WILDWOOD...WILDWOOD CREST...WOODBINE...
SEA ISLE CITY...AVALON...WEST CAPE MAY...STONE HARBOR...RIO GRANDE...
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE...SCOTCH BONNET...GOSHEN...DIAMOND BEACH...
ELDORA...GREEN CREEK...DENNISVILLE...NORTH CAPE MAY...STRATHMERE...
VILLAS AND WEST WILDWOOD.
LAT...LON 3896 7496 3897 7494 3897 7496 3914 7489
3917 7490 3919 7496 3924 7495 3919 7466
3912 7471 3910 7470 3903 7479 3899 7479
3894 7486 3893 7491 3893 7497
TIME...MOT...LOC 0313Z 276DEG 30KT 3906 7485
$$
SFJThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 8:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer | 43 min |
| Aug 14, 9:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex | 33 min |
| Aug 14, 9:48 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 87 min | |
| Aug 14, 9:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cumberland, Salem | 41 min |
| Aug 14, 10:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cape May, Cumberland | 41 min |
| Aug 15, 3:21 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Hunterdon, Middlesex and 4 more | 29 hr |
| Aug 15, 3:56 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | PHI | 37 hr | |
| Aug 14, 8:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 29 min |
| Aug 14, 9:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 44 min |
| Aug 14, 9:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cecil, Kent | 56 min |
| Aug 14, 9:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's | 49 min |
| Aug 15, 6:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent, Queen Anne's | 64 min |
| Aug 15, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 37 min |
| Aug 15, 7:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 41 min |
| Aug 14, 10:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 24 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2016Every 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.