Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 14, 2005, 5:03 AM EST for Morris County, Somerset 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
- Jan 14, 2005, 5:03 AM EST (10:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 14, 2005, 5:45 AM EST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Morris County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 4:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 587 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 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 141004
SVRPHI
NJC027-035-141045-
/X.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0003.050114T1003Z-050114T1045Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
503 AM EST FRI JAN 14 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN MORRIS COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY
NORTHERN SOMERSET COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY
* UNTIL 545 AM EST
* AT 503 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CALIFON...AND
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
FAR HILLS AND CHESTER BY 510 AM EST
MORRISTOWN AND MADISON BY 525 AM EST
EAST HANOVER AND PARSIPPANY BY 530 AM EST
BOONTON BY 535 AM EST
PEQUANNOCK TOWNSHIP BY 540 AM EST
DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM.
WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A
TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A
STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.
LAT...LON 4092 7429 4089 7427 4091 7430 4090 7434
4086 7432 4079 7437 4073 7438 4067 7447
4060 7472 4071 7472 4075 7483 4097 7428
$$
IOVINOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 4:43 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon | 32 min |
| Jan 14, 5:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer | 32 min |
| Jan 14, 5:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Monmouth | 50 min |
| Jan 14, 5:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Middlesex | 38 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.