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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 4, 2021, 5:38 PM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 37 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 4, 2021, 5:38 PM EDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2021, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
914
WWUS81 KPHI 042138
SPSPHI
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
538 PM EDT Sun Jul 4 2021
NJZ020-026-042215-
Coastal Ocean-Ocean-
538 PM EDT Sun Jul 4 2021
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTH CENTRAL OCEAN COUNTY...
At 538 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located over Tuckerton, or
16 miles north of Atlantic City, moving southeast at 10 mph.
Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail are possible with this
storm.
Locations impacted include...
Tuckerton, Surf City, Beach Haven West and Mystic Island.
This includes Garden State Parkway between mile markers 56 and 61.
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 3945 7420 3955 7443 3957 7442 3958 7440
3963 7439 3968 7435 3964 7406
TIME...MOT...LOC 2138Z 297DEG 10KT 3960 7435
$$
MPSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 1:25 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | PHI | Hunterdon, Warren | 7 hr |
| Jul 4, 3:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 29 min |
| Jul 4, 3:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington | 28 min |
| Jul 4, 3:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 26 min |
| Jul 4, 3:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington | 32 min |
| Jul 4, 4:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington | 25 min |
| Jul 4, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 36 min |
| Jul 4, 5:39 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 66 min | |
| Jul 4, 6:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 37 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.