Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2002, 7:38 PM EDT for Hunterdon County, Morris County, New Jersey. It was in force for 52 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 2, 2002, 7:38 PM EDT (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2002, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Morris County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 7:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Countywide, NJ | |
| Aug 2, 7:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 M | Long Vly, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1328 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
367 WUUS51 KPHI 022338 SVRPHI NJC019-027-030030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 738 PM EDT FRI AUG 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MORRIS COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY. HUNTERDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY. * UNTIL 830 PM EDT. * AT 734 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS... ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF KINNELON TO 6 MILES WEST OF MILFORD...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... MILFORD AT 745 PM. SUCCASUNNA...LONG VALLEY...LAKE TELEMARK...HIGH BRIDGE AT 750 PM. KINNELON...DOVER...CHESTER AT 755 PM. LEBANON AT 800 PM. STOCKTON AT 805 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 900 PM FRIDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN NEW JERSEY. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 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.