Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 24, 2002Monmouth County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2002, 8:26 PM EDT for Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was in force for 49 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, 8:26 PM EDT (00:26 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 2002, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
49 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 00:25 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 00:00Z, 0.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2002-08-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2002-08-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 216 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
490 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
216 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
243 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

700 
WUUS51 KPHI 250026
SVRPHI
NJC025-250115-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN MONMOUTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY.

* UNTIL 915 PM EDT.

* AT 815 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 5 MILES WEST OF ROOSEVELT...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
RURALSOUTHERN MONMOUTH COUNTYRURALSOUTHERN MONMOUTH
COUNTYRURALSOUTHEASTERN MONMOUTH COUNTY

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

$$

LAT...LON 4025 7444 4019 7453 4011 7413 4012 7395

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 24, 8:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington, Camden58 min
Aug 24, 8:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIGloucester44 min
Aug 24, 8:50 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI55 min
Aug 24, 9:40 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI80 min
Aug 24, 9:40 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI80 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.