Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 123, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2005, 3:24 PM EDT for Sussex County, Warren County, New Jersey. It was in force for 51 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, 3:24 PM EDT (19:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2005, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Sussex County, NJ, Warren County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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 14, 3:55 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 5 Wsw Newton, NJ | NUMEROUS TREES AND POLES DOWN IN STILLWATER TOWNSHIP. SOME POLES WERE REPORTED TO BE ON FIRE. |
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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 174 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 141926 SVRPHI NJC037-041-142015- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0123.050814T1924Z-050814T2015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 324 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL SUSSEX COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY NORTHERN WARREN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 415 PM EDT * AT 321 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF BLAIRSTOWN...OR ABOUT 34 MILES NORTHEAST OF BETHLEHEM...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BLAIRSTOWN BY 330 PM EDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT. LAT...LON 4112 7493 4096 7511 4099 7476 4114 7487 $$ EBERWINE
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS51 KPHI 142001 SVSPHI SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 359 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2005 NJC037-041-142015- /O.CON.KPHI.SV.W.0123.000000T0000Z-050814T2015Z/ SUSSEX NJ-WARREN NJ- 359 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 415 PM EDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL WARREN AND WEST CENTRAL SUSSEX COUNTIES... AT 355 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF BLAIRSTOWN...OR ABOUT 39 MILES NORTHEAST OF BETHLEHEM... MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. RADAR WAS INDICATING LARGE HAIL WITH THIS STORM, AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. THE STORM WAS INDICATING SOME ROTATION AND STORMS OF THIS NATURE CAN ALSO PRODUCE A TORNADO. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL WESTERN SUSSEX COUNTY AT 410 PM EDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN NEW JERSEY AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. LAT...LON 4112 7493 4096 7511 4099 7476 4114 7487 $$ EBERWINE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 2:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 35 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.