Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2002, 5:59 PM EDT for Atlantic County, Camden County, Gloucester County, New Jersey. It was in force for 46 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
- Jun 6, 2002, 5:59 PM EDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2002, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Atlantic County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 6:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Milmay, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1175 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 062159 SVRPHI NJC001-007-015-062245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 558 PM EDT THU JUN 6 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL CAMDEN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. SOUTHEASTERN GLOUCESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. NORTHWESTERN ATLANTIC COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. * UNTIL 645 PM EDT. * AT 553 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FOLSOM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ELWOOD AT 605 PM. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN DELAWARE AND NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. $$ LAT...LON 3957 7504 3947 7483 3959 7469 3971 7492
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 10:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 54 min | |
| Jun 5, 11:27 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 63 min | |
| Jun 5, 11:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 59 min | |
| Jun 5, 11:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 59 min | |
| Jun 6, 2:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Gloucester | 42 min |
| Jun 6, 2:54 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 66 min | |
| Jun 6, 3:42 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 33 min | |
| Jun 6, 4:20 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 40 min | |
| Jun 6, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May | 61 min |
| Jun 6, 5:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 60 min | |
| Jun 6, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Ocean | 48 min |
| Jun 6, 5:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Ocean | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 5:33 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 42 min | |
| Jun 6, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 58 min | |
| Jun 6, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 58 min | |
| Jun 6, 6:09 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 51 min | |
| Jun 6, 6:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Atlantic | 111 min |
| Jun 6, 6:42 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 63 min | |
| Jun 6, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May | 40 min |
| Jun 6, 7:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 45 min | |
| Jun 6, 7:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.