Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 2001, 4:19 PM EDT for Burlington County, Mercer County, New Jersey. It was in force for 26 min. 2 reports 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
- Aug 27, 2001, 4:19 PM EDT (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2001, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Burlington County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 4:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Bordentown, NJ | |
| Aug 27, 4:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Robbinsville, 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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 971 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
900 WUUS51 KPHI 272020 SVRPHI NJC005-021-272045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 419 PM EDT MON AUG 27 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL MERCER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY. NORTH CENTRAL BURLINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. * UNTIL 445 PM EDT. * AT 413 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... OVER BORDENTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. $$ LAT...LON 4019 7475 4008 7473 4010 7459 4022 7462 AMC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Middlesex | 21 min |
| Aug 27, 5:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Ocean | 116 min |
| Aug 27, 7:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Ocean | 2 hr |
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.