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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 14, 2002Camden County, Gloucester County, Salem County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2002, 6:44 PM EDT for Camden County, Gloucester County, Salem County, New Jersey. It was in force for 36 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
May 14, 2002, 6:44 PM EDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 2002, 7:20 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

Counties Camden County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Salem County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 14, 6:45 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 ECountywide, NJ
May 14, 6:55 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 ECamden, 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

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 85 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2002-05-14Temperature 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°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2002-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -217 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
1314 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
88 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-217 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-115 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.

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 142244
SVRPHI
NJC007-015-033-142315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
642 PM EDT TUE MAY 14 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 720 PM EDT.

* AT 640 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF
  BELLMAWR TO 9 MILES WEST OF BECKETT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  WOODSTOWN...MULLICA HILL...MAGNOLIA...LINDENWOLD AT 650 PM.
  TURNERSVILLE...GLASSBORO...ALLOWAY AT 655 PM.
  WILLIAMSTOWN...CLAYTON AT 700 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 3965 7549 3951 7545 3969 7487 3990 7505
          3981 7534

KRUZDLO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 9:05 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI85 min
May 13, 9:05 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI85 min
May 13, 9:05 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI85 min
May 13, 10:28 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI2 hr
May 13, 11:40 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHISussex3 hr
May 13, 11:47 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMorris, Sussex3 hr
May 14, 4:51 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI84 min
May 14, 5:20 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI55 min
May 14, 6:27 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI93 min
May 14, 6:27 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI93 min
May 14, 6:27 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI93 min
May 14, 6:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington32 min
May 14, 7:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIAtlantic, Cumberland49 min
May 14, 7:30 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI2 hr
May 14, 7:30 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI2 hr
May 14, 7:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington23 min
May 14, 7:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICape May43 min
May 14, 7:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIOcean28 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.