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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 5, 2003Mercer County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2003, 5:18 PM EDT for Mercer County, New Jersey. It was in force for 42 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, 5:18 PM EDT (21:18 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2003, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mercer County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:21 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 165 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2003-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 23 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2003-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

014 
WUUS51 KPHI 052118
SVRPHI
NJC021-052200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
517 PM EDT SAT JUL 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MERCER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY.

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT.

* AT 515 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A LINE OF SEVERE WINDS IN SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA MOVING
  EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE WINDS INCLUDE...
  EWING...
  LAWRENCEVILLE...
  MERCERVILLE-HAMILTON SQUARE...
  PRINCETON...
  TRENTON...
  WHITE HORSE...

DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS LINE. 
SMALL HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE.

FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE
TELEVISION OUTLET.

LAT...LON 4031 7458 4024 7450 4016 7472 4028 7488
          4037 7467
$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington, Camden66 min
Jul 5, 6:03 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI117 min
Jul 5, 6:03 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI117 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.