Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 1, 2005Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2005, 5:48 PM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 72 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: Jul 1, 2005, 5:48 PM EDT (21:48 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2005, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 72 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 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
Jul 1, 5:55 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	New Egypt, NJ	TREES AND WIRES DOWN

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

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 91 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 478 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 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 012150
SVRPHI
NJC029-012300-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0071.050701T2148Z-050701T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
548 PM EDT FRI JUL 1 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN OCEAN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 545 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 OVER
  SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP IN BURLINGTON COUNTY AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CEDAR GLEN LAKES BY 630 PM EDT
  LAKEHURST BY 640 PM EDT
  HOLIDAY CITY BY 650 PM EDT
  PLEASANT PLAINS AND LEISURE VILLAGE BY 655 PM EDT
  BEACHWOOD BY 700 PM EDT

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN BURLINGTON
COUNTY AND LARGE HAIL IN PHILADELPHIA. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A 
STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

LAT...LON 3994 7414 3993 7415 3983 7415 3981 7416
      3993 7448 4004 7454 4006 7454 4008 7417
      4008 7412

$$

TFG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 1, 2:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cape May	72 min
Jul 1, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Camden	51 min
Jul 1, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington	66 min
Jul 1, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Mercer, Monmouth	57 min
Jul 1, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Salem	38 min
Jul 1, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Ocean	65 min
Jul 1, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monmouth	57 min
Jul 1, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Mercer	49 min
Jul 1, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Camden, Gloucester	61 min
Jul 1, 5:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Burlington	24 min
Jul 1, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monmouth	75 min
Jul 1, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington	62 min
Jul 1, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		94 min
Jul 1, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Morris	26 min
Jul 1, 7:18 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		57 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.