Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2003, 12:28 AM EDT for Burlington County, Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 47 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 7, 2003, 12:28 AM EDT (04:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2003, 1:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Burlington County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:31 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 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
041 WUUS51 KPHI 070428 SVRPHI NJC005-029-070515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1227 AM EDT MON JUL 7 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... OCEAN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. BURLINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. * UNTIL 115 AM EDT. * AT 1220 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WHARTON STATE FOREST... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BATSTO... BEACHWOOD... CEDAR GLEN LAKES... CHATSWORTH... HOLIDAY CITY... LAKEHURST... PRESIDENTIAL LAKES... WHARTON STATE FOREST... DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. HEAVY RAIN AND NUMEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES ARE ALSO LIKELY. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. LAT...LON 3973 7480 3961 7463 3992 7417 4007 7437 $$
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 6, 11:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Gloucester | 49 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, 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.