Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2005, 2:23 PM EDT for Sussex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 35 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 14, 2005, 2:23 PM EDT (18:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2005, 2:58 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sussex County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:24 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 2:35 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 W Vernon Valley, NJ | TREE LIMBS DOWN IN WANTAGE. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 1871 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 901 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 141823 SVRPHI NJC037-141915- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0122.050814T1823Z-050814T1915Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 223 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN SUSSEX COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 315 PM EDT * AT 221 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SUSSEX...OR ABOUT 36 MILES NORTHWEST OF PATERSON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SUSSEX BY 240 PM EDT HIGHLAND LAKE BY 300 PM EDT VERNON VALLEY BY 305 PM EDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4123 7482 4111 7469 4118 7441 4135 7465 $$ EBERWINE
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS51 KPHI 141858 SVSPHI SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 257 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2005 NJC037-141907- /O.CAN.KPHI.SV.W.0122.000000T0000Z-050814T1915Z/ SUSSEX NJ- 257 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN SUSSEX COUNTY IS CANCELLED... OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING IN THE WATCH AREA AND MAY ALSO BECOME SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN NEW JERSEY AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. LAT...LON 4123 7482 4111 7469 4118 7441 4135 7465 $$ EBERWINE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 51 min |
| Aug 14, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Warren | 21 min |
| Aug 14, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 39 min |
| Aug 14, 5:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Sussex | 3 hr |
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.