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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 13, 2002Salem County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this tornado warning at May 13, 2002, 4:58 PM EDT for Salem County, New Jersey. It was in force for 32 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: May 13, 2002, 4:58 PM EDT (20:58 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2002, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Whole counties

County Salem County, NJ

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 13, 1:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 1109 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 862 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.4

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The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KPHI 132058
TORPHI
NJC033-132130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
457 PM EDT MON MAY 13 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SALEM COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT.

* AT 455 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 4 MILES SOUTH OF SALEM...
  MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY
  TIME.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ELMER...OLIVET AT 505 PM.

THIS THUNDERSTORM IS SHOWING A TIGHTENING ROTATION WHICH MAY 
PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANYTIME. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. SEEK
SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.


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

 
$$

TFG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 12, 8:08 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		67 min
May 12, 8:08 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		67 min
May 12, 8:08 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		67 min
May 12, 10:48 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		57 min
May 12, 10:48 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		57 min
May 12, 10:48 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		57 min
May 13, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cumberland, Salem	47 min
May 13, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Gloucester	34 min
May 13, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Camden	37 min
May 13, 5:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Camden, Gloucester	22 min
May 13, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington	42 min
May 13, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington	41 min
May 13, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic	19 min
May 13, 5:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Burlington, Ocean	37 min
May 13, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		92 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.