Alert archive / New Jersey / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this tornado warning at Sep 23, 2003, 8:14 AM EDT for Burlington County, Mercer County, New Jersey; Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 23, 2003, 8:14 AM EDT (12:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 23, 2003, 8:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Burlington County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Bucks County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:16 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 nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 705 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KPHI 231214 TORPHI NJC005-021-PAC017-231245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 813 AM EDT TUE SEP 23 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL MERCER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN BUCKS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA NORTH CENTRAL BURLINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 845 AM EDT. * AT 811 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 2 MILES SOUTH OF FLORENCE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BORDENTOWN...WRIGHTSTOWN AT 820 AM. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. LAT...LON 4009 7494 3996 7486 4004 7457 4020 7465 $$ KRUZDLO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 7:13 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 62 min | |
| Sep 23, 7:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Somerset | 36 min |
| Sep 23, 8:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Mercer | 44 min |
| Sep 23, 8:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris | 39 min |
| Sep 23, 8:26 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Middlesex, Monmouth | 49 min |
| Sep 23, 8:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Middlesex, Somerset | 27 min |
| Sep 23, 8:40 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 65 min | |
| Sep 23, 8:40 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 65 min | |
| Sep 23, 9:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Monmouth, Ocean | 70 min |
| Sep 23, 9:48 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 72 min | |
| Sep 23, 9:48 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 72 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.