Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2004, 9:04 PM EDT for Middlesex County, Somerset County, New Jersey. It was in force for 56 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, 9:04 PM EDT (01:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2004, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Middlesex County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:07 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 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 620 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 936 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 020104 SVRPHI NJC023-035-020200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 904 PM EDT THU JUL 1 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL MIDDLESEX COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK EAST CENTRAL SOMERSET COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 1000 PM EDT * AT 902 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MILLSTONE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF NEW BRUNSWICK...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BOUND BROOK BY 915 PM EDT... SOMERSET BY 920 PM EDT... MIDDLESEX BY 925 PM EDT... SOCIETY HILL AND NEW BRUNSWICK BY 935 PM EDT... EDISON BY 1000 PM EDT... LAT...LON 4057 7462 4042 7459 4048 7435 4059 7433 $$ RPW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic | 50 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.