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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 27, 2021Atlantic County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 27, 2021, 3:54 PM EDT for Atlantic County, New Jersey. It was in force for 51 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: Aug 27, 2021, 3:54 PM EDT (19:54 UTC)
Expired: Aug 27, 2021, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Atlantic County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 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, 7.9 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.

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: 1436 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1124 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

354 
WWUS81 KPHI 271954
SPSPHI

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
354 PM EDT Fri Aug 27 2021
 
NJZ022-025-272045-
Coastal Atlantic NJ-Atlantic NJ-
354 PM EDT Fri Aug 27 2021

...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern
Atlantic County through 445 PM EDT...

At 354 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Pleasantville, or near Atlantic City, moving east at 5 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around 
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Atlantic City, Pleasantville, Ventnor City, Brigantine, Northfield,
Absecon, Margate City, Port Republic, Pomona, Mystic Island and
Linwood.

This includes the following highways...
 Garden State Parkway between mile markers 33 and 44.
 Atlantic City Expressway between mile markers 0 and 11.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. 

&&

LAT...LON 3929 7435 3937 7463 3949 7461 3955 7440
      3954 7439 3955 7437 3954 7436 3944 7431
TIME...MOT...LOC 1954Z 272DEG 6KT 3942 7454 

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

$$

BAH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 27, 1:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Burlington, Camden	83 min
Aug 27, 2:18 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	PHI		44 hr
Aug 27, 2:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic	47 min
Aug 27, 2:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Warren	109 min
Aug 27, 2:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Ocean	38 min
Aug 27, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Warren	35 min
Aug 27, 2:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Ocean	46 min
Aug 27, 3:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Warren	24 min
Aug 27, 3:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington	44 min
Aug 27, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Ocean	45 min
Aug 27, 3:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Camden	52 min
Aug 27, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Ocean	30 min
Aug 27, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Ocean	46 min
Aug 27, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Camden, Gloucester	39 min
Aug 27, 4:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Gloucester	106 min
Aug 27, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		43 min
Aug 27, 4:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic	34 min
Aug 27, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Cumberland	29 min
Aug 27, 5:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland	2 hr
Aug 27, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Middlesex	39 min
Aug 27, 5:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset	3 hr
Aug 27, 5:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Middlesex	4 hr
Aug 27, 6:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Salem	98 min
Aug 27, 1:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Carbon, Monroe	2 hr
Aug 27, 1:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monroe	24 min
Aug 27, 1:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester	53 min
Aug 27, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Northampton	33 min
Aug 27, 2:18 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Chester	93 min
Aug 27, 2:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Carbon, Monroe, Northampton	28 min
Aug 27, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester	14 min
Aug 27, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Delaware	31 min
Aug 27, 6:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Berks	3 hr
Aug 27, 6:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks	34 min
Aug 27, 7:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Berks	3 hr
Aug 27, 3:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	New Castle	102 min
Aug 27, 5:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	New Castle	3 hr
Aug 27, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	New Castle	36 min
Aug 27, 6:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	New Castle	2 hr
Aug 27, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot	65 min
Aug 27, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, Queen Anne's	34 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.