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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 189, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 24, 2002Hunterdon County, Somerset County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2002, 7:32 PM EDT for Hunterdon County, Somerset County, New Jersey. It was in force for 28 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 24, 2002, 7:32 PM EDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 2002, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 164 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 2002-08-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2002-08-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
865 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 24, 6:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Warren34 min
Aug 24, 7:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICamden24 min
Aug 24, 7:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington34 min
Aug 24, 7:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICamden24 min
Aug 24, 7:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMercer38 min
Aug 24, 7:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks, Chester, Montgomery33 min
Aug 24, 7:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIChester, Delaware33 min
Aug 24, 7:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMontgomery, Philadelphia46 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.