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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 3, 2021, 4:09 PM EDT for Cape May County, New Jersey. It was in force for 36 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, 4:09 PM EDT (20:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2021, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Cape May County, NJ
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 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 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 151 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.
855
WWUS81 KPHI 032009
SPSPHI
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
409 PM EDT Sat Jul 3 2021
NJZ023-024-032045-
Atlantic Coastal Cape May-Cape May-
409 PM EDT Sat Jul 3 2021
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL CAPE MAY COUNTY...
At 409 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located over Dennisville, or
11 miles southwest of Ocean City, moving southeast at 25 mph.
Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail are possible with this
storm.
Locations impacted include...
Ocean City, Woodbine, Sea Isle City, Avalon, Stone Harbor, Cape May
Court House, Scotch Bonnet, Dennisville, Goshen, Strathmere and
Seaville.
This includes Garden State Parkway between mile markers 9 and 23.
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 3914 7442 3911 7446 3894 7458 3911 7492
3929 7482 3917 7440
TIME...MOT...LOC 2009Z 296DEG 21KT 3918 7479
$$
MPSThe 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, 2:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cape May | 43 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, 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 |
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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.