Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2005, 10:48 PM EDT for Mercer County, New Jersey. It was in force for 42 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, 10:48 PM EDT (02:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2005, 11:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mercer County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 1061 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 970 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 150248 SVRPHI NJC021-150330- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0145.050815T0248Z-050815T0330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1048 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MERCER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF TRENTON * UNTIL 1130 PM EDT * AT 1048 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 EWING...OR ABOUT NEAR TRENTON...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WHITE HORSE AND MERCERVILLE-HAMILTON SQUARE BY 1055 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 4040 7478 4032 7490 4016 7471 4022 7454 $$ RNS/JE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 44 min |
| Aug 14, 8:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Warren | 51 min |
| Aug 14, 8:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Warren | 36 min |
| Aug 14, 9:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris | 40 min |
| Aug 15, 12:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Camden, Gloucester | 43 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005
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.