Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 16, 2003Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2003, 2:13 PM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 47 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
Aug 16, 2003, 2:13 PM EDT (18:13 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 2003, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
47 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 18:14 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, 6.2 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2003-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 160 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2003-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
160 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1448 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 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 161813
SVRPHI
NJC029-161900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
211 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 300 PM EDT.

* AT 204 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... OVER FORKED RIVER...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MOVING OVER ISLAND BEACH STATE
PARK.

EXPECT ONE INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MILES AN HOUR AS THIS 
STORM MOVES THROUGH. 

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

$$

LAT...LON 3993 7425 3978 7424 3975 7404 3993 7402

SZATKOWSKI

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 16, 1:28 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI62 min
Aug 16, 1:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIWarren55 min
Aug 16, 2:25 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI95 min
Aug 16, 3:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIOcean57 min
Aug 16, 3:25 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI80 min
Aug 16, 4:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICumberland63 min
Aug 16, 4:30 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI2 hr
Aug 16, 5:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICape May72 min
Aug 16, 5:35 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI2 hr
Aug 16, 5:35 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI2 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.