Alert archive / New Jersey / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this tornado warning at Jul 27, 2004, 4:57 PM EDT for Burlington County, Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 33 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 27, 2004, 4:57 PM EDT (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2004, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Burlington County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 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 nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 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
- 54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 534 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KPHI 272057 TORPHI NJC005-029-272130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 456 PM EDT TUE JUL 27 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL BURLINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY WEST CENTRAL OCEAN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 530 PM EDT * AT 447 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR PRESIDENTIAL LAKES...OR ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTH OF TRENTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LAKEHURST BY 510 PM EDT THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3990 7472 3976 7456 4001 7426 4011 7446 $$ JRP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Salem | 30 min |
| Jul 27, 4:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 4:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Gloucester, Salem | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 7:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon | 3 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in New Jersey, 2004Every tornado warning in 2004Tornadoes 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.