Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 17, 2000, 12:49 PM EST for Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 17, 2000, 12:49 PM EST (17:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 17, 2000, 1:15 PM EST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monmouth County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 12:50 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Cream Ridge, NJ |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 12:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 453 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 92 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 582 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 603 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 171755 SVRPHL NJC025-171815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1249 PM EST SUN DEC 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN MONMOUTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY. * UNTIL 115 PM EST. * AT 1246 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 7 MILES SOUTH OF FARMINGDALE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 85 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ASBURY PARK...LINCROFT...TINTON FALLS AT 1255 PM. LONG BRANCH...RED BANK AT 100 PM. VERY STRONG WINDS WERE REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS IN MANCHESTER AND LACEY TOWNSHIPS IN OCEAN COUNTY. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU SEE THREATENING WEATHER. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 6:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Warren | 3 hr |
| Dec 17, 7:42 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer | 3 hr |
| Dec 17, 7:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 35 min |
| Dec 17, 9:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Salem | 35 min |
| Dec 17, 10:20 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Sussex | 3 hr |
| Dec 17, 11:01 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer | 3 hr |
| Dec 17, 11:16 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Warren | 3 hr |
| Dec 17, 11:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex | 28 min |
| Dec 17, 11:50 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Middlesex, Somerset | 3 hr |
| Dec 17, 12:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 34 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.