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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 13, 2002Burlington County, Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this tornado warning at May 13, 2002, 5:53 PM EDT for Burlington County, Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 37 min. 3 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
May 13, 2002, 5:53 PM EDT (21:53 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 2002, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

Counties Burlington County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 13, 5:55 PM EDTHail 1Chatsworth, NJ
May 13, 6:15 PM EDTHail 1.75Bayville, NJ
May 13, 6:15 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 55 MBayville, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 13, 1:30 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 175 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2002-05-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 6 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2002-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 208 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
398 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
208 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
295 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 
WFUS51 KPHI 132153
TORPHI
NJC005-029-132230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BURLINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY
  CENTRAL OCEAN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT.

* AT 549 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER WHARTON STATE
  FOREST...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO
  AT ANY TIME.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  OCEAN ACRES...BEACH HAVEN WEST AT 605 PM.
  BARNEGAT AT 610 PM.
  BEACHWOOD AT 615 PM.

FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE 
TELEVISION OUTLET. EVEN WITHOUT A TORNADO REACHING THE GROUND...
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE STILL LIKELY. 

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM MONDAY EVENING FOR
SOUTHWESTERN DELAWARE AND NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND AND SOUTHERN NEW
JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.

$$

LAT...LON 3975 7477 3963 7461 3965 7424 3998 7410

TFG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 8:08 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI67 min
May 12, 8:08 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI67 min
May 12, 8:08 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI67 min
May 12, 10:48 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI57 min
May 12, 10:48 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI57 min
May 12, 10:48 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI57 min
May 13, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICumberland, Salem47 min
May 13, 4:58 PM EDTTornado WarningPHISalem32 min
May 13, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIGloucester34 min
May 13, 5:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICamden37 min
May 13, 5:23 PM EDTTornado WarningPHICamden, Gloucester22 min
May 13, 5:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington42 min
May 13, 5:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington41 min
May 13, 5:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIAtlantic19 min
May 13, 5:58 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI92 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.