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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 13, 2000Morris County, Somerset County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2000, 8:19 PM EDT for Morris County, Somerset County, New Jersey. It was in force for 41 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: May 13, 2000, 8:19 PM EDT (00:19 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2000, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Whole counties

Counties Morris County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 13, 8:25 PM EDT	Hail 1	Neshanic, 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
May 13, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 798 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 248 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

189 
WUUS51 KPHI 140022
SVRPHL
NJC021-027-035-PAC017-091-101-140100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
819 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MERCER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY.   
  MORRIS COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY.
  SOMERSET COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY.
  SOUTHEASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.
  SOUTHEASTERN BUCKS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.
  PHILADELPHIA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT.

* AT 813 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMSFROM THE SOUTHERN POCONOS SOUTH TO
  CHESTER COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 40 TO 50 MPH.

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

NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 8:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex, Warren	52 min
May 13, 8:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon	52 min
May 13, 8:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Mercer	41 min
May 13, 8:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester	35 min
May 13, 8:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cumberland, Salem	35 min
May 13, 8:33 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Sussex	42 min
May 13, 8:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Middlesex, Monmouth	36 min
May 13, 8:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Morris	36 min
May 13, 8:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester	46 min
May 13, 8:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cumberland, Salem	46 min
May 13, 9:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth	36 min
May 13, 9:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Ocean	36 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.