Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 2003, 3:29 PM EST for 10 counties in 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
- Oct 27, 2003, 3:29 PM EST (20:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 2003, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Atlantic County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Middlesex County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ, Salem County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 710 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 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 272029
SVRPHI
NJC001-005-007-011-015-021-023-025-029-033-272130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
329 PM EST MON OCT 27 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MERCER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY.
MONMOUTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY.
SALEM COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY.
CAMDEN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY.
GLOUCESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY.
OCEAN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW
ATLANTIC COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY.
BURLINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY.
* UNTIL 430 PM EST.
* AT 323 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS... ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTH
OF HOPEWELL TO 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SHILOH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
MPH.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
TURNERSVILLE...PENNINGTON...HOPEWELL...CHERRY HILL AT 335 PM.
ROSENHAYN...LINDENWOLD...EWING...CLAYTON AT 340 PM.
WILLINGBORO...MILLVILLE AT 345 PM.
FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE
TELEVISION OUTLET.
$$
LAT...LON 3946 7445 3935 7537 3996 7511 4009 7484
4026 7489 4051 7448 4045 7411The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2:49 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 116 min | |
| Oct 27, 3:23 PM EST | Tornado Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Somerset | 52 min |
| Oct 27, 3:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris | 40 min |
| Oct 27, 3:46 PM EST | Tornado Warning | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex | 44 min |
| Oct 27, 4:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | PHI | Monmouth, Ocean | 58 min |
| Oct 27, 4:14 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 91 min | |
| Oct 27, 4:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth, Ocean | 50 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.