Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2001, 1:35 PM EDT for Warren County, New Jersey; Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 55 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 29, 2001, 1:35 PM EDT (17:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2001, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Warren County, NJ, Northampton County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:38 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 1:42 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Glendon, PA |
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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 1335 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 291735 SVRPHI NJC019-041-PAC095-291830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 135 PM EDT TUE MAY 29 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL NORTHAMPTON COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. SOUTHWESTERN WARREN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY. HUNTERDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY. * UNTIL 230 PM EDT. * AT 126 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 4 MILES WEST OF OLD ORCHARD...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ALPHA AT 140 PM. MILFORD...BLOOMSBURY AT 145 PM. FRENCHTOWN AT 150 PM. GLEN GARDNER AT 155 PM. HIGH BRIDGE AT 200 PM. LEBANON AT 205 PM. HAIL...DIME SIZED OR GREATER...IS EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE STORMS PATH...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. $$ LAT...LON 4069 7529 4062 7530 4043 7483 4070 7477
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 1:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon | 55 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 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.