Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 24, 2004Monmouth County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2004, 7:32 PM EDT for Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was in force for 43 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, 7:32 PM EDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2004, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Monmouth County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 132 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 2004-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 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 2004-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 242332
SVRPHI
NJC025-250015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
732 PM EDT MON MAY 24 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MONMOUTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 726 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES WEST OF
  YORKETOWN...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTH OF NEW BRUNSWICK...AND MOVING
  EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  YORKETOWN BY 740 PM EDT
  ROBERTSVILLE BY 745 PM EDT
  WEST FREEHOLD BY 750 PM EDT
  EAST FREEHOLD BY 755 PM EDT
  FARMINGDALE AND LINCROFT BY 805 PM EDT
  TINTON FALLS AND 7 MILES SOUTH OF RED BANK BY 810 PM EDT

LAT...LON 4022 7448 4013 7406 4049 7397 4044 7419

$$

RPW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 5:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon52 min
May 24, 6:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Mercer, Somerset63 min
May 24, 6:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMiddlesex59 min
May 24, 7:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISomerset35 min
May 24, 7:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMiddlesex61 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.