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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 22, 2003Somerset County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2003, 3:48 PM EDT for Somerset 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 22, 2003, 3:48 PM EDT (19:48 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2003, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Whole counties

County Somerset County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 22, 1:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 151 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1497 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 5.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

729 
WUUS51 KPHI 221948
SVRPHI
NJC035-222030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
347 PM EDT TUE JUL 22 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOMERSET COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY.

* UNTIL 430 PM EDT.

* AT 345 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...NEAR RINGOES IN HUNTERDON COUNTY ALONG 
  ROUTE 202....MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MILLSTONE AT 405 PM.
  SOMERVILLE...MANVILLE AT 410 PM.

HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS GREATER THAN 55 MILES AN
HOUR ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE
UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID
USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY
FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES.

THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY FLOOD
LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS
AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM.

$$

LAT...LON 4066 7470 4043 7474 4048 7458 4070 7452

IOVINO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 8:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Morris	83 min
Jul 21, 8:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon	84 min
Jul 21, 9:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Somerset	89 min
Jul 22, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Middlesex	50 min
Jul 22, 2:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Camden	38 min
Jul 22, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon	40 min
Jul 22, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Middlesex	43 min
Jul 22, 4:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Middlesex	105 min
Jul 22, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		83 min
Jul 22, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cumberland	41 min
Jul 22, 5:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cape May	49 min
Jul 22, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		60 min
Jul 22, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic	38 min
Jul 22, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden	47 min
Jul 22, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Ocean	61 min
Jul 22, 7:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monmouth	76 min
Jul 22, 7:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		80 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.