Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2002, 8:40 PM EDT for Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was in force for 65 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, 8:40 PM EDT (00:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2002, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monmouth County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:42 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, 8:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 72 M | Countywide, NJ | |
| Aug 2, 8:55 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Hazlet, 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 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 127 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.
742 WUUS51 KPHI 030040 SVRPHI NJC025-030145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 840 PM EDT FRI AUG 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MONMOUTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY. * UNTIL 945 PM EDT. * AT 837 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS... ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF KEANSBURG TO 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF WEST FREEHOLD... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... KEANSBURG AT 850 PM. RED BANK...LINCROFT...HIGHLANDS AT 910 PM. WEST FREEHOLD...EAST FREEHOLD AT 915 PM. TINTON FALLS AT 925 PM. LONG BRANCH...FARMINGDALE AT 930 PM. ASBURY PARK AT 940 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 4017 7434 4010 7404 4043 7395 4049 7420
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Warren | 29 min |
| 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, 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
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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.