Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2003, 4:53 PM EDT for Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was in force for 52 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, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2003, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monmouth County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 994 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
407 WUUS51 KPHI 062053 SVRPHI NJC025-062145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 453 PM EDT WED AUG 6 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN MONMOUTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY. * UNTIL 545 PM EDT. * AT 450 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN CENTRAL MONMOUTH COUNTY 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LINCROFT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LINCROFT AT 500 PM. RED BANK...MATAWAN AT 505 PM. KEANSBURG AT 530 PM. HIGHLANDS AT 535 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. IN ADDITION HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. $$ LAT...LON 4028 7434 4019 7413 4050 7387 4061 7416 TFG
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, 1:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May | 34 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, 5:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 53 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.