Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 4, 2005Burlington County, Camden County, Gloucester County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2005, 3:27 PM EDT for Burlington County, Camden County, Gloucester County, New Jersey. It was in force for 48 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: Aug 4, 2005, 3:27 PM EDT (19:27 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2005, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 106 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 891 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -134 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1729 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 041928
SVRPHI
NJC005-007-015-042015-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0105.050804T1927Z-050804T2015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
327 PM EDT THU AUG 4 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL BURLINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY
  NORTHWESTERN CAMDEN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY
  NORTH CENTRAL GLOUCESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 324 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  SEVERAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR THE  
  DELAWARE RIVER MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MARLTON AND LINDENWOLD BY 340 PM EDT

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 4005 7494 3983 7523 3973 7508 3995 7485

$$

WN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 2:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Camden	40 min
Aug 4, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		32 min
Aug 4, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Gloucester	40 min
Aug 4, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington	34 min
Aug 4, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Camden	43 min

Nearby

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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.