Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2003, 6:47 PM EDT for Burlington County, New Jersey. It was in force for 58 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 27, 2003, 6:47 PM EDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2003, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Burlington County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
007 WUUS51 KPHI 272247 SVRPHI NJC005-272345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 645 PM EDT FRI JUN 27 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BURLINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. * UNTIL 745 PM EDT. * AT 645 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...OVER MOUNT LAUREL AND VICINITY... MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BROWNS MILLS... CHATSWORTH... LEISURETOWNE... MEDFORD... MOUNT HOLLY... PEMBERTON... PRESIDENTIAL LAKES... HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS GREATER THAN 55 MILES AN HOUR ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 4006 7493 3992 7497 3974 7451 3997 7452 $$ IOVINO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 6:05 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 55 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.