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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 1, 2004Monmouth County, Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2004, 3:14 PM EDT for Monmouth County, Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 46 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
Jul 1, 2004, 3:14 PM EDT (19:14 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 2004, 4:00 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 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, 7.2 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2004-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 28 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2004-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1512 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
35 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.

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 011914
SVRPHI
NJC025-029-012000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
314 PM EDT THU JUL 1 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN MONMOUTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY
  EXTREME NORTHEASTERN OCEAN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 312 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MANASQUAN...OR
  ABOUT 31 MILES SOUTH OF PERTH AMBOY...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
  HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM IN BRICK TOWNSHIP.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MANTOLOKING BY 325 PM EDT...
  MANASQUAN AND BELMAR BY 330 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 4019 7412 4002 7412 4000 7399 4021 7399

$$

RPW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 4:56 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIOcean79 days
Jul 1, 6:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICumberland58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.