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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

October 30, 2016Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Oct 30, 2016, 7:13 PM EDT for Ocean 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: Oct 30, 2016, 7:13 PM EDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired: Oct 30, 2016, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 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 166 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: 1121 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

562 
WWUS81 KPHI 302313
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
713 PM EDT SUN OCT 30 2016

NJZ020-026-302330-
OCEAN-COASTAL OCEAN-
713 PM EDT SUN OCT 30 2016

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT EAST CENTRAL OCEAN
COUNTY...

AT 713 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR SEASIDE HEIGHTS TO NEAR BARNEGAT.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 50 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

THESE STORMS WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EAST CENTRAL
OCEAN AND EAST CENTRAL COASTAL OCEAN COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE
FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: WARETOWN AND OCEAN ACRES.

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

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

LAT...LON 3980 7417 3974 7420 3974 7417 3977 7413
      3976 7410 3972 7412 3975 7412 3973 7416
      3970 7418 3971 7413 3968 7415 3969 7419
      3967 7419 3972 7428 3993 7412 3981 7417
      3977 7410
TIME...MOT...LOC 2313Z 291DEG 45KT 3991 7405 3977 7416 

$$

DRAG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 30, 4:04 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	PHI		34 hr
Oct 30, 2:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	42 min
Oct 30, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Morris	35 min
Oct 30, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon	31 min
Oct 30, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Middlesex	33 min
Oct 30, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer, Salem	42 min
Oct 30, 5:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Salem	51 min
Oct 30, 5:57 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		63 min
Oct 30, 6:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Monmouth and 2 more	46 min
Oct 30, 7:10 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		35 min
Oct 30, 7:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		35 min
Oct 30, 7:51 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		24 min
Oct 30, 2:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon, Monroe	22 min
Oct 30, 4:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Bucks	19 min
Oct 30, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Chester	44 min
Oct 30, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks, Chester	25 min
Oct 30, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Philadelphia	48 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.