Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2004, 6:46 PM EDT for Middlesex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 59 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
- May 24, 2004, 6:46 PM EDT (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2004, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Middlesex County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -444 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
188 WUUS51 KPHI 242246 SVRPHI NJC023-242345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 643 PM EDT MON MAY 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MIDDLESEX COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK * UNTIL 745 PM EDT * AT 640 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF KENDALL PARK...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTH OF TRENTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... KENDALL PARK BY 705 PM EDT DAYTON AND 7 MILES SOUTH OF NORTH BRUNSWICK BY 710 PM EDT JAMESBURG AND CLEARBROOK PARK BY 715 PM EDT EAST BRUNSWICK BY 720 PM EDT 9 MILES SOUTH OF SAYREVILLE BY 725 PM EDT OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE COUNTY NORHT OF THE PATHCAST LOCATIONS. LAT...LON 4035 7462 4026 7442 4060 7424 4058 7442 $$ RPW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon | 52 min |
| May 24, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Somerset | 63 min |
| May 24, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Somerset | 35 min |
| May 24, 7:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth | 43 min |
| May 24, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Middlesex | 61 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.