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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 27, 2005Sussex County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2005, 4:23 PM EDT for Sussex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 52 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: Jul 27, 2005, 4:23 PM EDT (20:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2005, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 52 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), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jul 27, 1:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 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.

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: 1290 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1099 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 272023
SVRPHI
NJC037-272115-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0085.050727T2023Z-050727T2115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
423 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN SUSSEX COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT

* AT 421 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF
  CRANDON LAKES...OR ABOUT 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF BETHLEHEM...AND
  MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CRANDON LAKES BY 430 PM EDT
  BRANCHVILLE BY 440 PM EDT
  FRANKLIN AND SUSSEX BY 450 PM EDT

HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 4121 7515 4108 7505 4106 7452 4128 7456
      4134 7470

$$

NIERENBERG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Warren	47 min
Jul 27, 5:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Morris	44 min
Jul 27, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Mercer, Somerset	62 min
Jul 27, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden	61 min
Jul 27, 7:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monmouth	40 min
Jul 27, 7:20 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		85 min
Jul 27, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Salem	53 min
Jul 27, 7:54 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		96 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 2005 Every 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.