Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 10:52 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 68 min | |
| Jul 6, 11:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 93 min | |
| Jul 6, 11:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 93 min | |
| Jul 6, 11:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cumberland, Salem | 61 min |
| Jul 7, 12:02 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 58 min | |
| Jul 7, 12:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Camden | 41 min |
| Jul 7, 12:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 47 min |
| Jul 7, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Gloucester | 36 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.