Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 6, 2003Cape May County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2003, 1:41 AM EDT for Cape May County, New Jersey. It was in force for 34 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: Aug 6, 2003, 1:41 AM EDT (05:41 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2003, 2:15 AM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Whole counties

County Cape May County, NJ

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 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.

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: 351 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1014 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

474 
WUUS51 KPHI 060541
SVRPHI
NJC009-060615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
141 AM EDT WED AUG 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CAPE MAY COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY.

* UNTIL 215 AM EDT.

* AT 135 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 8 MILES WEST OF CAPE MAY...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RIO GRANDE...WILDWOOD AT 150 AM.
  NORTH WILDWOOD AT 155 AM.
  CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE...STONE HARBOR AT 200 AM.
  AVALON AT 205 AM.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. IF YOU ARE IN THE STORMS PATH...TAKE COVER 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.

FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE
TELEVISION OUTLET.

$$

LAT...LON 3896 7519 3884 7502 3908 7467 3924 7487

EBERWINE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 1:09 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		66 min
Aug 6, 2:06 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		84 min
Aug 6, 2:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cape May	29 min
Aug 6, 3:01 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		59 min
Aug 6, 2:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Morris, Somerset	46 min
Aug 6, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Morris	45 min
Aug 6, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monmouth	52 min
Aug 6, 5:07 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		53 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.