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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 19, 2002Monmouth County, Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2002, 2:42 PM EDT for Monmouth County, Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 48 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 19, 2002, 2:42 PM EDT (18:42 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 2002, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

Counties Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:45 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 19, 2:50 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 57 EHowell, 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 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 143 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 12:00Z on 2002-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 591 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 12:00Z on 2002-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
591 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1078 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

074 
WUUS51 KPHI 191842
SVRPHI
NJC025-029-191930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
242 PM EDT FRI JUL 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN MONMOUTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY.
 
* UNTIL 330 PM EDT.

* AT 239 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 3 MILES SOUTH OF FARMINGDALE...MOVING
  SOUTHWEST AT 5 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 4014 7431 4007 7407 4019 7399 4027 7412

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 19, 1:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonmouth24 min
Jul 19, 2:10 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI65 min
Jul 19, 2:10 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI65 min
Jul 19, 3:17 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI88 min
Jul 19, 3:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIOcean42 min
Jul 19, 4:06 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIOcean39 min
Jul 19, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington40 min
Jul 19, 5:01 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI59 min
Jul 19, 5:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington49 min
Jul 19, 5:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMonmouth, Ocean3 hr
Jul 19, 7:12 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBurlington, Camden2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.