Alert archive / New Jersey / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this tornado warning at May 13, 2000, 8:39 PM EDT for Morris County, New Jersey. It was in force for 36 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
- May 13, 2000, 8:39 PM EDT (00:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2000, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morris County, NJ
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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
028 WFUS51 KPHI 140040 TORPHL NJC027-140115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 839 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MORRIS COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 915 PM EDT. * AT 835 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BLAIRSTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ROXBURY...AT 850 PM EDT... DOVER...LAKE TELEMARK AT 855 PM EDT... BOONTON...PARSIPPANY AT 900 PM EDT... 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 | Morris, Somerset | 41 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, 8:54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.