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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 14, 2002Atlantic County, Cumberland County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2002, 7:11 PM EDT for Atlantic County, Cumberland County, New Jersey. It was in force for 49 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, 7:11 PM EDT (23:11 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 2002, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

Counties Atlantic County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 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
May 14, 7:28 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EHammonton, NJ
May 14, 7:35 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EVineland, 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 105 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 142311
SVRPHI
NJC001-011-150000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY.
  ATLANTIC COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY.

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT.

* AT 710 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF HAMMONTON TO SHILOH...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  HAMMONTON...VINELAND...FOLSOM...FAIRTON AT 720 PM.
  MILLVILLE...ELWOOD AT 725 PM.
  EGG HARBOR CITY...MAYS LANDING AT 730 PM.
  POMONA AT 740 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 3942 7540 3933 7521 3924 7500 3935 7488
          3936 7463 3951 7449 3969 7475 3942 7506
          3953 7523

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, 6:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICamden, Gloucester, Salem36 min
May 14, 6:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington32 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.