Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 27, 2005Burlington County, Camden County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2005, 6:44 PM EDT for Burlington County, Camden County, New Jersey. It was in force for 61 min. 4 reports 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 27, 2005, 6:44 PM EDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2005, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 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 27, 6:55 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Maple Shade, NJ	TREES AND WIRES DOWN.
Jul 27, 6:55 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Willingboro, NJ	A COUPLE OF LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN ON BEVERLY-RANCOCAS ROAD.
Jul 27, 6:55 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Willingboro, NJ	LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN ON BEVERLY-RANCOCAS ROAD.
Jul 27, 7:00 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Pennsauken, NJ	TREES AND WIRES DOWN.

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

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, 1:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 1105 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1506 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 272245
SVRPHI
NJC005-007-272345-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0095.050727T2244Z-050727T2345Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BURLINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY
  NORTHWESTERN CAMDEN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CAMDEN

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 640 PM EDT...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED 65 MPH WINDS IN 
  PHILADELPHIA. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF PALMYRA AND
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PALMYRA...CAMDEN AND GLOUCESTER CITY BY 705 PM EDT
  RIVERSIDE AND BELLMAWR BY 710 PM EDT
  CHERRY HILL...WILLINGBORO AND MAGNOLIA BY 715 PM EDT
  MARLTON AND LINDENWOLD BY 725 PM EDT

WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH...HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH 
THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 4016 7462 4004 7496 3993 7516 3975 7505
      3998 7451

$$

NIERENBERG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex	52 min
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, 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

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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.