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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 26, 2021, 8:36 PM EDT for Cape May County, New Jersey. It was in force for 39 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 26, 2021, 8:36 PM EDT (00:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2021, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Cape May County, NJ
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 662 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1474 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted.
841
WWUS81 KPHI 270036
SPSPHI
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
836 PM EDT Wed May 26 2021
NJZ021-023-024-270115-
Cumberland-Atlantic Coastal Cape May-Cape May-
836 PM EDT Wed May 26 2021
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN CUMBERLAND AND CAPE
MAY COUNTIES...
At 835 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located near Green Creek, or
10 miles northwest of Cape May, moving east at 45 mph.
Wind gusts up to 50 mph are possible with this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Ocean City, Cape May, North Wildwood, Wildwood Crest, Woodbine, Sea
Isle City, Estell Manor, Avalon, West Cape May, Stone Harbor, Corbin
City, Cape May Court House, Leesburg, Scotch Bonnet, Beesleys Point,
Seaville, Dennisville, Strathmere, Eldora and North Cape May.
This includes Garden State Parkway between mile markers 0 and 26.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3913 7443 3911 7446 3903 7451 3885 7510
3911 7523 3934 7487 3931 7482 3931 7480
3930 7476 3929 7469 3931 7469 3929 7468
3930 7466
TIME...MOT...LOC 0035Z 251DEG 40KT 3907 7499
$$
MeolaThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:40 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 65 min | |
| May 26, 10:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester | 46 min |
| May 26, 10:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Ocean | 40 min |
| May 26, 10:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester | 50 min |
| May 26, 11:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 40 min |
| May 26, 11:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 54 min | |
| May 27, 12:07 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 23 min | |
| May 27, 3:30 PM EDT | Gale Watch | PHI | 12 hr | |
| May 26, 9:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon | 43 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.