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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 3, 2021, 2:32 PM EDT for Cape May County, New Jersey. It was in force for 43 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
- Jul 3, 2021, 2:32 PM EDT (18:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2021, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 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 18:32 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 1396 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
735 WWUS81 KPHI 031832 SPSPHI Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 232 PM EDT Sat Jul 3 2021 NJZ023-024-031915- Atlantic Coastal Cape May-Cape May- 232 PM EDT Sat Jul 3 2021 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN CAPE MAY COUNTY... At 232 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located near Green Creek, or 9 miles north of Cape May, moving southeast at 10 mph. Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail are possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Cape May, North Wildwood, Wildwood Crest, Avalon, Stone Harbor, Cape May Court House, Scotch Bonnet, Diamond Beach, Green Creek, Rio Grande, Villas, West Wildwood, Erma and Whitesboro-Burleigh. This includes Garden State Parkway between mile markers 0 and 11. If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may cause localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. LAT...LON 3908 7499 3914 7494 3907 7465 3890 7487 TIME...MOT...LOC 1832Z 310DEG 8KT 3908 7493 $$ MPS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 9:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington | 45 min |
| Jul 3, 2:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Salem | 47 min |
| Jul 3, 2:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cumberland | 37 min |
| Jul 3, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cumberland | 45 min |
| Jul 3, 4:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cape May | 36 min |
| Jul 3, 5:44 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic | 2 hr |
| Jul 3, 5:50 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | PHI | Warren | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 1:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Delaware | 52 min |
| Jul 3, 2:03 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Delaware | 2 hr |
| Jul 3, 6:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Bucks, Lehigh, Northampton | 2 hr |
| Jul 3, 3:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | New Castle | 26 min |
| Jul 3, 5:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 25 min |
| Jul 3, 4:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Caroline | 31 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.