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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 22, 2003Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2003, 6:59 PM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 61 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, 6:59 PM EDT (22:59 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2003, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Whole counties

County Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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.

347 
WUUS51 KPHI 222259
SVRPHI
NJC029-230000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT.

* AT 658 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...ALONG A LINE EXTENDING ACROSS CENTRAL AND 
  SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  MYSTIC ISLAND AT 715 PM.
  TUCKERTON AT 725 PM.
  LAKEHURST AT 735 PM.
  BEACH HAVEN WEST AT 740 PM.
  BARNEGAT AT 750 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.

$$

LAT...LON 3978 7417 3972 7414 3951 7437 3957 7441
          3975 7440 4005 7454 4007 7433 3984 7414

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, 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, 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.