Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2003, 3:03 PM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 57 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, 3:03 PM EDT (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2003, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 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 19:05 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, 7.1 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 161903 SVRPHI NJC029-162000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 259 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 400 PM EDT. * AT 255 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... OVER PLEASANT PLAINS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BRICK TOWNSHIP AT 310 PM. SEASIDE HEIGHTS AT 315 PM. MANTOLOKING AT 320 PM. HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS GREATER THAN 55 MILES AN HOUR ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS OVER NORTHERN LONG BEACH ISLAND NEAR HARVEY CEDARS. THIS STORM IS ALSO MOVING OFF TO THE EAST. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. $$ LAT...LON 4009 7429 3991 7428 3990 7378 4013 7378 SZATKOWSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 1:28 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 62 min | |
| Aug 16, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Warren | 55 min |
| Aug 16, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Ocean | 47 min |
| Aug 16, 2:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 95 min | |
| Aug 16, 3:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 80 min | |
| Aug 16, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cumberland | 63 min |
| Aug 16, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 2 hr | |
| Aug 16, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May | 72 min |
| Aug 16, 5:35 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 2 hr | |
| Aug 16, 5:35 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.