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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 28, 2019Cape May County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 28, 2019, 9:31 AM EDT for Cape May County, New Jersey. It was in force for 44 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: May 28, 2019, 9:31 AM EDT (13:31 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2019, 10:15 AM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Cape May County, NJ

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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: 1242 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 192 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at May 28, 9:14 AM EDT, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 9:14 AM EDT, 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 3:36 AM EDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 28, 9:31 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 9:17 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		58 min
May 28, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Salem	41 min
May 28, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cumberland, Salem	64 min
May 28, 6:13 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		62 min
May 28, 6:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Camden, Gloucester, Salem	38 min
May 28, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem	61 min
May 28, 7:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cumberland, Salem	40 min
May 28, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Morris, Sussex, Warren	66 min
May 28, 7:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cape May, Cumberland, Salem	52 min
May 28, 7:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Cumberland, Salem	2 hr
May 28, 7:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Morris, Sussex, Warren	2 hr
May 28, 7:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Cumberland	31 min
May 28, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks	63 min
May 28, 4:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Chester	49 min
May 28, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks	67 min
May 28, 5:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Berks	23 min
May 28, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks	39 min
May 28, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks, Chester	45 min
May 28, 6:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Berks	2 hr
May 28, 6:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Chester	36 min
May 28, 6:14 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Chester	4 hr
May 28, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks, Bucks, Lehigh, Montgomery	44 min
May 28, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks, Chester, Delaware	48 min
May 28, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monroe	64 min
May 28, 7:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Delaware, Philadelphia	3 hr
May 28, 7:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monroe	63 min
May 28, 8:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, Sussex	47 min
May 28, 9:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, Sussex	47 min
May 28, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	New Castle	46 min
May 28, 7:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot	40 min
May 28, 5:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cecil	51 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2019 Every special weather statement in 2019

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.