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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 9, 2021Salem County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 9, 2021, 1:48 PM EDT for Salem County, New Jersey. It was in force for 27 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 2021, 1:48 PM EDT (17:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2021, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Salem County, NJ

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:47 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 9, 2:00 PM EDT	MARINE TSTM WIND 60	3 Se Port Penn, DE	NJ WEATHERNET SITE NJ74.
Jun 9, 2:11 PM EDT	TSTM WND GST 60	Lower Alloways Creek, NJ	NJ WEATHERNET SITE NJ74.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 795 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

021 
WWUS81 KPHI 091748
SPSPHI

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
148 PM EDT Wed Jun 9 2021

NJZ016-091815-
Salem-
148 PM EDT Wed Jun 9 2021

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN SALEM COUNTY...

At 148 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located over Hope Creek, or
10 miles east of Middletown. The storm is nearly stationary.

Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch hail are possible with this
storm.

Locations impacted include...
Hancocks Bridge and Hope Creek. 

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 3948 7555 3955 7553 3948 7541 3942 7550
      3945 7553
TIME...MOT...LOC 1748Z 292DEG 3KT 3947 7551 

$$

Gorse

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 8:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		65 min
Jun 9, 1:46 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		59 min
Jun 9, 1:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic	23 min
Jun 9, 2:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Gloucester, Salem	23 min
Jun 9, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Salem	31 min
Jun 9, 2:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem	73 min
Jun 9, 2:47 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		58 min
Jun 9, 3:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington	28 min
Jun 9, 3:48 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		57 min
Jun 9, 3:49 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Burlington	3 hr
Jun 9, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon	24 min
Jun 9, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth	28 min
Jun 9, 6:46 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		59 min
Jun 9, 6:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Monmouth, Ocean	87 min
Jun 9, 7:42 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		63 min
Jun 9, 4:54 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Berks, Montgomery	112 min
Jun 9, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks, Lehigh, Northampton	23 min
Jun 8, 8:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	45 min
Jun 9, 7:54 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	PHI	New Castle	5 hr
Jun 9, 1:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	New Castle	25 min
Jun 9, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent	64 min
Jun 9, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex	62 min
Jun 9, 3:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex	64 min
Jun 9, 3:24 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Sussex	3 hr
Jun 9, 4:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Sussex	108 min
Jun 9, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, Sussex	27 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.