Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 171, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 2, 2002Burlington County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2002, 11:25 PM EDT for Burlington County, New Jersey. It was in force for 65 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
Aug 2, 2002, 11:25 PM EDT (03:25 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 2002, 12:30 AM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

County Burlington County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:25 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
Aug 2, 11:30 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EMedford Lakes, 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, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 188 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 00:00Z on 2002-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2399 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2002-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 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
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

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The text

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

004 
WUUS51 KPHI 030325
SVRPHI
NJC005-030430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1124 PM EDT FRI AUG 2 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BURLINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY.

* UNTIL 1230 AM EDT.

* AT 1120 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARLTON...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LEISURETOWNE AT 1135 PM.
  BROWNS MILLS AT 1140 PM.
  PRESIDENTIAL LAKES AT 1150 PM.
  WHARTON STATE FOREST AT MIDNIGHT.
  CHATSWORTH AT 1205 AM.

FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE
TELEVISION OUTLET.

$$

LAT...LON 3994 7500 3962 7461 3980 7441 4014 7471

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 8:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIWarren29 min
Aug 2, 8:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISomerset66 min
Aug 2, 8:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMiddlesex43 min
Aug 2, 8:38 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI67 min
Aug 2, 8:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonmouth65 min
Aug 2, 9:18 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI87 min
Aug 2, 9:55 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI65 min
Aug 2, 10:45 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI90 min
Aug 2, 10:45 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI90 min
Aug 3, 4:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIGloucester53 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.