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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Nov 30, 2016, 8:41 PM EST for Gloucester County, Salem County, New Jersey. It was in force for 34 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
- Nov 30, 2016, 8:41 PM EST (01:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 30, 2016, 9:15 PM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Gloucester County, NJ, Salem County, NJ
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:42 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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -236 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 832 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted.
156
WWUS81 KPHI 010141
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
841 PM EST WED NOV 30 2016
NJZ016-017-010215-
SALEM-GLOUCESTER-
841 PM EST WED NOV 30 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL GLOUCESTER AND SALEM
COUNTIES...
AT 840 PM EST...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER
PENNSVILLE...OR NEAR WILMINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WILMINGTON...VINELAND...DEPTFORD...WEST DEPTFORD...GLASSBORO...
PENNSVILLE...WOODBURY...PITMAN...CLAYTON...CARNEYS POINT...
PAULSBORO...PENNS GROVE...SALEM...WOODSTOWN...ALLOWAY...
WOODBURY HEIGHTS...NATIONAL PARK...QUINTON...SWEDESBORO AND ELMER.
HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES, GO INDOORS QUICKLY.
LAT...LON 3978 7544 3978 7541 3976 7540 3987 7517
3967 7497 3962 7513 3957 7506 3946 7508
3956 7524 3946 7537 3945 7542 3940 7541
3939 7543 3944 7546 3946 7554 3954 7554
3957 7551 3959 7555 3963 7556
TIME...MOT...LOC 0140Z 239DEG 27KT 3963 7549
$$
POThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 8:17 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Salem | 28 min |
| Nov 30, 8:21 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 39 min | |
| Nov 30, 9:15 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester | 30 min |
| Nov 30, 9:46 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex | 29 min |
| Nov 30, 7:38 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cecil, Kent | 37 min |
| Nov 30, 10:08 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 37 min |
| Nov 30, 10:32 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cecil | 28 min |
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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.