Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2003, 4:06 PM EDT for Middlesex County, Somerset County, New Jersey. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2003, 4:06 PM EDT (20:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2003, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Middlesex County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
900 WUUS51 KPHI 142006 SVRPHI NJC023-035-142045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 406 PM EDT SAT JUN 14 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL SOMERSET COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY. MIDDLESEX COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY. * UNTIL 445 PM EDT. * AT 400 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 2 MILES NORTH OF MANVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BOUND BROOK... EAST BRUNSWICK... EDISON... JAMESBURG... MANVILLE... MIDDLESEX... MILLSTONE... NEW BRUNSWICK... NORTH BRUNSWICK... OLD BRIDGE... PERTH AMBOY... SAYREVILLE... SOCIETY HILL... SOMERSET... LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. LAT...LON 4064 7452 4051 7466 4030 7440 4048 7421 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 52 min |
| Jun 14, 2:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 18 min |
| Jun 14, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris | 37 min |
| Jun 14, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth | 66 min |
| Jun 14, 5:19 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 56 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.