Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2003, 4:54 PM EDT for Burlington County, Camden County, New Jersey; Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 66 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
- Jul 5, 2003, 4:54 PM EDT (20:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2003, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Bucks County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1502 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
950
WUUS51 KPHI 052054
SVRPHI
NJC005-007-PAC017-052200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
449 PM EDT SAT JUL 5 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BUCKS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.
CAMDEN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY.
BURLINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY.
* UNTIL 600 PM EDT.
* AT 450 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A LEADING EDGE OF STRONG WINDS IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY
MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN BUCKS
COUNTY...CAMDEN COUNTY...AND BURLINGTON COUNTIES AS THIS LINE
OF STRONG WINDS MOVES THROUGH THE REGION.
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK
SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE 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 3974 7472 3994 7520 4004 7499 4017 7505
4021 7472
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer | 42 min |
| Jul 5, 6:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 117 min | |
| Jul 5, 6:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 117 min | |
| Jul 5, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 55 min |
| Jul 5, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Montgomery | 33 min |
| Jul 5, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 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.