Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2002, 8:01 PM EDT for Warren County, New Jersey. It was in force for 29 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
- Aug 2, 2002, 8:01 PM EDT (00:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2002, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
County Warren County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 2399 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
921 WUUS51 KPHI 030001 SVRPHI NJC041-030030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 801 PM EDT FRI AUG 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN WARREN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY. * UNTIL 830 PM EDT. * AT 755 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 3 MILES WEST OF ALPHA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WASHINGTON AT 810 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. $$ LAT...LON 4067 7524 4060 7519 4078 7490 4082 7501
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Somerset | 66 min |
| Aug 2, 8:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Middlesex | 43 min |
| Aug 2, 8:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 67 min | |
| Aug 2, 8:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth | 65 min |
| Aug 2, 9:18 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 87 min | |
| Aug 2, 9:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 65 min | |
| Aug 2, 10:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 90 min | |
| Aug 2, 10:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 90 min | |
| Aug 2, 11:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Gloucester | 53 min |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.