Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 17, 2001Hunterdon County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2001, 8:54 PM EDT for Hunterdon County, New Jersey. It was in force for 66 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
Jul 17, 2001, 8:54 PM EDT (00:54 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 2001, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

County Hunterdon County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 17, 9:30 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 52 EFlemington, 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 nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 2001-07-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 849 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2001-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
849 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
847 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
6.7

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 180055
SVRPHI

NJC019-180200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
854 PM EDT TUE JUL 17 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN HUNTERDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY.

* UNTIL 1000 PM EDT.

* AT 851 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF GLEN GARDNER...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.  LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND ARE POSSIBLE
  FROM THIS STORM.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  GLEN GARDNER AT 900 PM.
  HIGH BRIDGE AT 905 PM.
  CALIFON AT 910 PM.
  LEBANON AT 915 PM.
  WHITE HOUSE STATION AT 925 PM.

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

$$

LAT...LON 4077 7489 4064 7509 4048 748!2 4062 7472

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 17, 8:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIWarren41 min
Jul 17, 9:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington39 min
Jul 17, 10:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIOcean82 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.