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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 6, 2002Gloucester County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2002, 2:48 AM EDT for Gloucester County, New Jersey. It was in force for 42 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
Jun 6, 2002, 2:48 AM EDT (06:48 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 2002, 3:30 AM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

County Gloucester County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:49 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

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 200 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2002-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1191 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2002-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 129 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1191 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-150 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
950 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
151 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 060648
SVRPHI
NJC015-060730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
248 AM EDT THU JUN 6 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 330 AM EDT.

* AT 244 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 7 MILES WEST OF MULLICA HILL...MOVING EAST
  AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MULLICA HILL AT 255 AM.

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

$$

LAT...LON 3976 7535 3966 7519 3973 7506 3981 7517

RNS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 10:21 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI54 min
Jun 5, 11:27 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI63 min
Jun 5, 11:31 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI59 min
Jun 5, 11:31 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI59 min
Jun 6, 2:54 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI66 min
Jun 6, 3:42 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI33 min
Jun 6, 4:20 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI40 min
Jun 6, 4:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICape May61 min
Jun 6, 5:00 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI60 min
Jun 6, 5:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIOcean48 min
Jun 6, 5:28 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIOcean2 hr
Jun 6, 5:33 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI42 min
Jun 6, 5:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIAtlantic, Camden, Gloucester46 min
Jun 6, 6:02 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI58 min
Jun 6, 6:02 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI58 min
Jun 6, 6:09 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI51 min
Jun 6, 6:24 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIAtlantic111 min
Jun 6, 6:42 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI63 min
Jun 6, 6:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICape May40 min
Jun 6, 7:00 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI45 min
Jun 6, 7:00 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI45 min

Nearby

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