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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 19, 2002Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this tornado warning at Jul 19, 2002, 4:06 PM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 39 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: Jul 19, 2002, 4:06 PM EDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2002, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Whole counties

County Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 591 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1078 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

621 
WFUS51 KPHI 192006
TORPHI
NJC029-192045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
406 PM EDT FRI JUL 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN OCEAN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT.

* AT 406 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER LAKEWOOD...OR ABOUT 30 MILES EAST OF
  TRENTON. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN MOUNT HOLLY.

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

$$

LAT...LON 4007 7445 3986 7432 3991 7416 4003 7408
          4011 7420 4016 7428

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 1:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monmouth	24 min
Jul 19, 2:10 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		65 min
Jul 19, 2:10 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		65 min
Jul 19, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monmouth, Ocean	48 min
Jul 19, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		88 min
Jul 19, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Ocean	42 min
Jul 19, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington	40 min
Jul 19, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		59 min
Jul 19, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington	49 min
Jul 19, 5:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Monmouth, Ocean	3 hr
Jul 19, 7:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden	2 hr

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.