Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 5, 2005Salem County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2005, 5:23 PM EDT for Salem County, New Jersey. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 5, 2005, 5:23 PM EDT (21:23 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2005, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Salem County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 5, 5:59 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 Nw Elmer, NJ	TREES AND WIRES DOWN IN UPPER PITTSGROVE TWP.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 186 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: 1695 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1122 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 052123
SVRPHI
NJC033-052200-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0110.050805T2123Z-050805T2200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
523 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL SALEM COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 520 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ELMER...OR ABOUT
  17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WILMINGTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ELMER AND OLIVET BY 530 PM EDT

LAT...LON 3967 7531 3958 7537 3952 7513 3957 7507

$$

WN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Camden, Gloucester	33 min
Aug 5, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington	43 min
Aug 5, 6:28 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		62 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.