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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 6, 2003Gloucester County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2003, 11:56 PM EDT for Gloucester County, New Jersey. It was in force for 49 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 6, 2003, 11:56 PM EDT (03:56 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 2003, 12:45 AM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Gloucester County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:00 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

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 196 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2003-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3982 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2003-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 50 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
3982 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
980 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
2.8

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The text

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

649 
WUUS51 KPHI 070356
SVRPHI
NJC015-070445-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1154 PM EDT SUN JUL 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GLOUCESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY.

* UNTIL 1245 AM EDT.

* AT 1149 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  AN AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN SALEM COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...  
  GLASSBORO...
  TURNERSVILLE...
  VICTORY LAKES...
  WILLIAMSTOWN...

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 3972 7500 3967 7491 3962 7490 3956 7499
          3960 7507 3968 7518 3977 7506
$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 10:52 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI68 min
Jul 6, 11:12 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI93 min
Jul 6, 11:12 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI93 min
Jul 6, 11:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICumberland, Salem61 min
Jul 7, 12:02 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI58 min
Jul 7, 12:04 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICamden41 min
Jul 7, 12:28 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington, Ocean47 min
Jul 7, 7:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIGloucester36 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.