Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 22, 2003Cape May County, Cumberland County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2003, 9:45 PM EDT for Cape May County, Cumberland County, New Jersey. It was in force for 45 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, 9:45 PM EDT (01:45 UTC)
Expired: Aug 22, 2003, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cape May County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 146 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 230145
SVRPHI
NJC009-011-230230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
945 PM EDT FRI AUG 22 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY.
  CAPE MAY COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY.

* UNTIL 1030 PM EDT.

* AT 940 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 3 MILES SOUTH OF PORT NORRIS...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WOODBINE AT 1000 PM.
  CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE...RIO GRANDE AT 1010 PM.
  AVALON...STONE HARBOR...SEA ISLE CITY AT 1015 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 3901 7496 3912 7491 3918 7496 3922 7513
          3933 7509 3923 7459 3900 7482 3894 7491

AMC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 22, 8:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Gloucester	43 min
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, 10:08 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		2 hr
Aug 22, 10:08 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.