Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2003, 5:56 PM EDT for Cape May 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2003, 5:56 PM EDT (21:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2003, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cape May County, NJ
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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 1049 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 961 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
386 WUUS51 KPHI 222156 SVRPHI NJC009-222245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 555 PM EDT TUE JUL 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CAPE MAY COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. * UNTIL 645 PM EDT. * AT 553 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...OVER LOWER DELAWARE BAY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CAPE MAY AT 615 PM. RIO GRANDE AT 625 PM. NORTH WILDWOOD...WILDWOOD AT 630 PM. CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE...STONE HARBOR AT 635 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM. $$ LAT...LON 3895 7523 3881 7507 3907 7458 3927 7477 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, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Somerset | 42 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, 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
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.