Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 2, 2000Mercer County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2000, 7:45 PM EDT for Mercer County, New Jersey. It was in force for 45 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: Jun 2, 2000, 7:45 PM EDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2000, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Whole counties

County Mercer County, NJ

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 2, 7:55 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Princeton, 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
Jun 2, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 2021 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 022346
SVRPHL
NJC021-030030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
745 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MERCER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY.

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT.

* AT 742 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOPEWELL...OR ABOUT 13
  MILES NORTH OF TRENTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LAWRENCEVILLE AT 750 PM EDT...

HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS GREATER THAN 55 MILES AN
HOUR ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE
UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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

NNNN

LAT...LON 4041 7477 4033 7490 4021 7475 4028 7456

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Warren	50 min
Jun 2, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex	32 min
Jun 2, 6:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Morris	38 min
Jun 2, 7:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Somerset	45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.