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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 127, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 14, 2005Sussex County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2005, 5:06 PM EDT for Sussex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 39 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 14, 2005, 5:06 PM EDT (21:06 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2005, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 39 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), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 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 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 142106
SVRPHI
NJC037-142145-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0127.050814T2106Z-050814T2145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
506 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN AND CENTRAL SUSSEX COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 504 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR NEWTON...OR ABOUT 37 MILES
  WEST OF PATERSON...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL ALSO
  PRODUCE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  NEWTON...ANDOVER AND BRANCHVILLE BY 520 PM EDT
  LAKE MOHAWK AND HOPATCONG BY 530 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 4116 7488 4108 7494 4097 7481 4094 7467
      4100 7461 4130 7466

$$

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, 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, 5:39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.