Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 2003, 4:25 PM EST for Monmouth County, Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 50 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, 4:25 PM EST (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 2003, 5:15 PM EST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 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 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 250 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 525 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 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 272125 SVRPHI NJC025-029-272215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 425 PM EST MON OCT 27 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN MONMOUTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY. EASTERN OCEAN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. * UNTIL 515 PM EST. * AT 421 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS... ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM KEANSBURG TO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOLIDAY CITY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... PLEASANT PLAINS AT 430 PM. TINTON FALLS...RED BANK...LEISURE VILLAGE...BEACHWOOD AT 435 PM. HIGHLANDS...BRICK TOWNSHIP AT 440 PM. LONG BRANCH...BELMAR...ASBURY PARK AT 445 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 4050 7415 3980 7441 3972 7408 4044 7391
The 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, 3:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Mercer and 4 more | 61 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 |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 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.