Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 29, 2001Hunterdon County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2001, 1:35 PM EDT for Hunterdon County, New Jersey. It was in force for 55 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 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

County Hunterdon County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 158 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2001-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2001-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 1:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIWarren55 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.