Alert archive / New Jersey / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2002, 5:44 PM EDT for Middlesex County, Somerset County, New Jersey. It was in force for 36 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 27, 2002, 5:44 PM EDT (21:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2002, 6:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Middlesex County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 145 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1079 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 922 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KPHI 272144 TORPHI NJC023-035-272220- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 542 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN SOMERSET COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY NORTHERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 620 PM EDT. * AT 539 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER MANVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... SOCIETY HILL...NEW BRUNSWICK...EAST BRUNSWICK AT 550 PM. EDISON AT 555 PM. PERTH AMBOY...SAYREVILLE AT 600 PM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. $$ LAT...LON 4058 7464 4041 7464 4043 7424 4058 7425 KRUZDLO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Warren | 37 min |
| Jun 27, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Somerset | 40 min |
| Jun 27, 5:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Somerset | 27 min |
| Jun 27, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Warren | 47 min |
| Jun 27, 7:37 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 113 min | |
| Jun 27, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset | 46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.