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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jan 7, 2017, 4:02 PM EST for 6 counties in New Jersey; Sussex County, Delaware. It was in force for 88 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
- Jan 7, 2017, 4:02 PM EST (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 7, 2017, 5:30 PM EST
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Sussex County, DE, Atlantic County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 99 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 498 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
981
WWUS81 KPHI 072102
SPSPHI
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
402 PM EST SAT JAN 7 2017
DEZ002>004-MDZ020-NJZ012>027-072230-
Delaware Beaches-Kent-Inland Sussex-Caroline-Ocean-Salem-Eastern
Monmouth-Cumberland-Coastal Ocean-Western Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal
Cape May-Coastal Atlantic-Southeastern
Burlington-Middlesex-Northwestern Burlington-Cape
May-Atlantic-Mercer-Gloucester-Camden-
402 PM EST SAT JAN 7 2017
...AN AREA OF HEAVY SNOW WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN KENT...SUSSEX...
SOUTHEASTERN CAROLINE...SOUTHEASTERN CAMDEN...SOUTHEASTERN
GLOUCESTER...EAST CENTRAL MERCER...CAPE MAY...ATLANTIC...MONMOUTH...
EAST CENTRAL SALEM...OCEAN...SOUTHEASTERN MIDDLESEX...BURLINGTON AND
CUMBERLAND COUNTIES...
At 400 PM EST, a band of heavy snow was broadly located along a line
extending from near Coney Island to near Hammonton to near
Bridgeville. Movement was southeast at 15 mph.
This area of heavy snow will be near...
Mizpah around 420 PM EST.
Weymouth and Elwood-Magnolia around 425 PM EST.
Batsto around 435 PM EST.
Georgetown around 440 PM EST.
Mays Landing around 450 PM EST.
Egg Harbor City around 455 PM EST.
Pomona around 515 PM EST.
Millsboro around 525 PM EST.
Other locations impacted by this area of heavy snow include Freehold,
Shrewsbury, Holiday City, Laurence Harbor, Pemberton Heights,
Eatontown, Erma, Medford Lakes, South Toms River and Manahawkin.
Visibilities will drop quickly to less than a quarter of a mile in
this area of heavy snow and one half to 1 inch can accumulate in 30
minutes.
Conditions can deteriorate rapidly in winter weather situations. Be
prepared for snow or ice covered roads. Slow down and allow extra
time when traveling.
LAT...LON 3999 7414 3977 7410 3979 7413 3948 7436
3956 7441 3933 7449 3933 7468 3929 7455
3893 7496 3845 7527 3871 7578 3915 7541
3907 7541 3900 7533 3918 7515 3930 7529
4059 7421 4046 7426 4044 7398
TIME...MOT...LOC 2100Z 303DEG 12KT 4055 7398 3962 7483 3877 7555
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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.