Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 158, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 15, 2003, 12:12 AM EDT for 4 counties in New Jersey; Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 48 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
- Oct 15, 2003, 12:12 AM EDT (04:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 15, 2003, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ, Philadelphia County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:16 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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 304 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 150412 SVRPHI NJC005-007-015-029-PAC101-150500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1210 AM EDT WED OCT 15 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN PHILADELPHIA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. EASTERN CAMDEN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. GLOUCESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. OCEAN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. BURLINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. * UNTIL 100 AM EDT. * AT 1204 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS... ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF PALMYRA TO 4 MILES WEST OF FOLSOM...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... PALMYRA...FOLSOM...CHERRY HILL...BERLIN AT 1215 AM. CHESILHURST AT 1220 AM. MARLTON AT 1220 AM. RIVERSIDE...HAMMONTON AT 1230 AM. BEVERLY AT 1215 AM. WILLINGBORO AT 1215 AM. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. $$ LAT...LON 4011 7510 3954 7494 3961 7430 4007 7443
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 11:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 54 min | |
| Oct 14, 11:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 54 min | |
| Oct 14, 11:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 54 min | |
| Oct 14, 11:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 54 min | |
| Oct 15, 12:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland | 38 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 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.