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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 28, 2005Burlington County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this tornado warning at May 28, 2005, 4:27 PM EDT for Burlington County, New Jersey. It was in force for 33 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: May 28, 2005, 4:27 PM EDT (20:27 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2005, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Burlington County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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 nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1800 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 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 
WFUS51 KPHI 282027
TORPHI
NJC005-282100-
/O.NEW.KPHI.TO.W.0001.050528T2027Z-050528T2100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
427 PM EDT SAT MAY 28 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL BURLINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 421 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF MEDFORD...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CAMDEN...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  MEDFORD BY 440 PM EDT
  LEISURETOWNE BY 450 PM EDT
  PEMBERTON...BROWNS MILLS AND PRESIDENTIAL LAKES BY 500 PM EDT

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3986 7494 3975 7480 3989 7448 4006 7456

$$

RNS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		97 min
May 28, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Camden, Gloucester, Salem	44 min
May 28, 4:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington	50 min
May 28, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Mercer	30 min
May 28, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monmouth, Ocean	54 min
May 28, 4:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Burlington	22 min
May 28, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset	45 min
May 28, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic	36 min
May 28, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		42 min
May 28, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		63 min
May 28, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Ocean	29 min

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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.