Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 2003, 6:14 PM EDT for Burlington County, New Jersey. It was in force for 61 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 17, 2003, 6:14 PM EDT (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2003, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burlington County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 1663 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 172214 SVRPHI NJC005-172315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 611 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS EXTENDED THE * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN BURLINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. * UNTIL 715 PM EDT. * AT 608 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... OVER BROWNS MILLS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM HAS KNOCKED DOWN TREE LIMBS AND WIRES IN NORTH HANOVER AND WALNUT SIZE HAIL IN PLUMSTED TOWNSHIP. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PRESIDENTIAL LAKES AT 620 PM. CHATSWORTH AT 640 PM. HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS OR LARGER...AND WINDS UP TO 65 MILES AN HOUR...ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE 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 4010 7452 4001 7473 3956 7443 3964 7440 TFG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 2:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 97 min | |
| Aug 17, 2:35 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 85 min | |
| Aug 17, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Warren | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 3:46 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 89 min | |
| Aug 17, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Somerset | 63 min |
| Aug 17, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer | 50 min |
| Aug 17, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Monmouth | 43 min |
| Aug 17, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Ocean | 62 min |
| Aug 17, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth | 53 min |
| Aug 17, 7:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 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.