Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 28, 2005Cumberland County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2005, 5:02 PM EDT for Cumberland County, New Jersey. It was in force for 58 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: Jun 28, 2005, 5:02 PM EDT (21:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2005, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cumberland County, NJ

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 28, 5:45 PM EDT	NON-TSTM WND DMG	Fairton, NJ	LIGHTNING KNOCKED OUT POWER TO ALL OF CEDARVILLE

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 80 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: 109 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1025 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 282103
SVRPHI
NJC011-282200-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0057.050628T2102Z-050628T2200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
502 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS EXTENDED
THE  

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 501 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF FAIRTON AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  FAIRTON BY 520 PM EDT
  PORT NORRIS BY 545 PM EDT
  MILLVILLE BY 550 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.

THIS STORM KNOCKED OUT PHONE SERVICE IN NORTHEASTERN KENT COUNTY
DELAWARE. TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3934 7534 3918 7531 3921 7495 3946 7501

$$

TFG

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KPHI 282136
SVSPHI

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
535 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 2005

NJC011-282200-
/O.CON.KPHI.SV.W.0057.000000T0000Z-050628T2200Z/
CUMBERLAND NJ-
535 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR
CUMBERLAND COUNTY...

AT 531 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO
PENNY SIZE...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. 
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTH OF FAIRTON...OR JUST WEST
OF FORTESCUE AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT DOWNE TOWNSHIP THE HARDEST.
 
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 3934 7534 3918 7531 3922 7508 3944 7510

$$

TFG

The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 2:16 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		119 min
Jun 28, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cumberland, Salem	62 min
Jun 28, 4:23 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		67 min
Jun 28, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		62 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.