Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2004, 5:34 PM EDT for Middlesex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 41 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
- Jun 1, 2004, 5:34 PM EDT (21:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2004, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 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), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 12:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 830 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
130 WUUS51 KPHI 012134 SVRPHI NJC023-012215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 534 PM EDT TUE JUN 1 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 530 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTH OF SOCIETY HILL...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF NEW BRUNSWICK...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SOCIETY HILL BY 540 PM EDT EDISON BY 550 PM EDT 7 MILES NORTH OF SAYREVILLE BY 600 PM EDT PERTH AMBOY BY 605 PM EDT LAT...LON 4058 7445 4053 7447 4043 7432 4058 7423 $$ KRUZDLO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May | 50 min |
| Jun 1, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 44 min |
| Jun 1, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 69 min |
| Jun 1, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 79 min |
| Jun 1, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth | 33 min |
| Jun 1, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Somerset | 61 min |
| Jun 1, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May | 36 min |
| Jun 1, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris | 36 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.