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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

March 9, 2000Sussex County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2000, 7:04 PM EST for Sussex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 9, 2000, 7:04 PM EST (00:04 UTC)
Expired
Mar 9, 2000, 7:45 PM EST
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

County Sussex County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 156 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2000-03-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2000-03-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 287 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1986 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
287 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
354 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 100006
SVRPHL
NJC037-100045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
704 PM EST THU MAR 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SUSSEX COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY.

* UNTIL 745 PM EST.

* AT 704 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...10 MILES NORTHWEST OF CRANDON LAKES...OR
  ABOUT 39 MILES EAST OF SCRANTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CRANDON LAKES AT 710 PM EST...
  BRANCHVILLE AT 715 PM EST...
  SUSSEX AT 725 PM EST...
  FRANKLIN...VERNON VALLEY AT 730 PM EST...
  HIGHLAND LAKE AT 735 PM EST...

FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE
TELEVISION OUTLET.

NNNN

TG/NC

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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.