Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 127, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2003, 8:02 PM EDT for Gloucester County, New Jersey. It was in force for 43 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 22, 2003, 8:02 PM EDT (00:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2003, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gloucester County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 4711 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 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 230002
SVRPHI
NJC015-230045-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
802 PM EDT FRI AUG 22 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN GLOUCESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY.
* UNTIL 845 PM EDT.
* AT 757 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 6 MILES WEST OF GLASSBORO...MOVING EAST AT
15 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
GLASSBORO AT 815 PM.
CLAYTON AT 825 PM.
WILLIAMSTOWN AT 840 PM.
VICTORY LAKES AT 845 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.
INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID
USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY
FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES.
FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE
TELEVISION OUTLET.
$$
LAT...LON 3974 7527 3967 7529 3966 7520 3955 7501
3968 7493
AMCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 9:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cumberland | 41 min |
| Aug 22, 9:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 53 min | |
| Aug 22, 9:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 67 min | |
| Aug 22, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May, Cumberland | 45 min |
| Aug 22, 10:08 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 2 hr | |
| Aug 22, 10:08 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 2 hr |
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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.