Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

April 3, 2002Atlantic County, Cape May County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2002, 3:24 PM EST for Atlantic County, Cape May County, New Jersey. It was in force for 51 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: Apr 3, 2002, 3:24 PM EST (20:24 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2002, 4:15 PM EST
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Whole counties

Counties Atlantic County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 3, 3:30 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Belleplain, NJ
Apr 3, 3:53 PM EST	Hail 0.75	Somers Pt, 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1206 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 199 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 257 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 032024
SVRPHI
NJC001-009-032115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
323 PM EST WED APR 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN ATLANTIC COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY.
  NORTHERN CAPE MAY COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY.

* UNTIL 415 PM EST.

* AT 318 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF WOODBINE...MOVING 
  EAST AT 40 MPH. DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS AND LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE
  WITH THIS STORM.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ESTELL MANOR AT 330 PM.
  CORBIN CITY AT 335 PM.
  MAYS LANDING AT 340 PM.
  SOMERS POINT...OCEAN CITY AT 345 PM.
  POMONA...LONGPORT AT 350 PM.
  ABSECON...VENTNOR CITY AT 355 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 800 PM WEDNESDAY
EVENING FOR EASTERN MARYLAND.

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 3, 2:53 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	PHI		67 min
Apr 3, 2:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cumberland	32 min
Apr 3, 3:41 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	PHI		64 min
Apr 3, 3:41 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	PHI		64 min
Apr 3, 3:41 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	PHI		64 min
Apr 3, 4:01 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	PHI		59 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.