Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 31, 2002Sussex County, Warren County, New Jersey; Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2002, 5:43 PM EDT for Sussex County, Warren County, New Jersey; Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 47 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 31, 2002, 5:43 PM EDT (21:43 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2002, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Whole counties

Counties Sussex County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 31, 5:50 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Wallpack Center, NJ
May 31, 6:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Huntsville, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 31, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
May 31, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 181 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 663 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 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.

297 
WUUS51 KPHI 312143
SVRPHI
NJC037-041-PAC089-312230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
543 PM EDT FRI MAY 31 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.
  SOUTHWESTERN SUSSEX COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY.
  NORTHEASTERN WARREN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY.

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT.

* AT 537 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF BLAIRSTOWN...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BLAIRSTOWN...CRANDON LAKES AT 550 PM.
  NEWTON AT 600 PM.
  HACKETTSTOWN AT 605 PM.

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

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM FRIDAY
EVENING FOR NORTHERN DELAWARE AND NORTHEAST MARYLAND AND NORTHWESTERN
NEW JERSEY AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO
REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM FRIDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST
PENNSYLVANIA.

$$

LAT...LON 4120 7515 4102 7518 4083 7481 4110 7471

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth	45 min
May 31, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		33 min
May 31, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Morris, Sussex	50 min
May 31, 7:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex	44 min
May 31, 7:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Warren	45 min
May 31, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester, Montgomery	29 min
May 31, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks, Montgomery	26 min
May 31, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monroe	27 min
May 31, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks, Montgomery, Philadelphia	45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 2002 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2002 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.