Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 190, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 24, 2002Camden County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2002, 7:36 PM EDT for Camden County, New Jersey. It was in force for 24 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 24, 2002, 7:36 PM EDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 2002, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

County Camden County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 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 24, 7:40 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 52 ECherry Hill, 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

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 212 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 2002-08-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1854 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 2002-08-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 158 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
1854 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
490 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
8.8

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The text

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

999 
WUUS51 KPHI 242336
SVRPHI
NJC007-250000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
736 PM EDT SAT AUG 24 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN CAMDEN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY.

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT.

* AT 728 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 4 MILES NORTH OF CHERRY HILL...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LINDENWOLD AT 745 PM.
  BERLIN AT 750 PM.

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

$$

LAT...LON 3997 7504 3990 7514 3975 7494 3985 7493

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, 7:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Somerset28 min
Aug 24, 7:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMercer38 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.