Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 23, 2003, 7:54 AM EDT for Hunterdon County, Mercer County, Somerset County, New Jersey. It was in force for 36 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
- Sep 23, 2003, 7:54 AM EDT (11:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 23, 2003, 8:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:53 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 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1185 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 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 231154 SVRPHI NJC019-021-035-231230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 750 AM EDT TUE SEP 23 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EXTREME NORTHWESTERN MERCER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY. SOUTHWESTERN SOMERSET COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY. HUNTERDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY. * UNTIL 830 AM EDT. * AT 747 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...OVER FLEMINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WHITE HOUSE STATION AND LEBANON AROUND 800 AM. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALSO HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE TORNADOES. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. $$ LAT...LON 4057 7506 4036 7491 4040 7464 4069 7477 KRUZDLO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 7:13 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 62 min | |
| Sep 23, 8:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Mercer | 44 min |
| Sep 23, 8:14 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Burlington, Mercer | 31 min |
| Sep 23, 8:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris | 39 min |
| Sep 23, 8:26 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Middlesex, Monmouth | 49 min |
| Sep 23, 8:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Middlesex, Somerset | 27 min |
| Sep 23, 8:40 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 65 min | |
| Sep 23, 8:40 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 65 min | |
| Sep 23, 9:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Monmouth, Ocean | 70 min |
| Sep 23, 9:48 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 72 min | |
| Sep 23, 9:48 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 72 min |
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.