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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 1, 2005Burlington County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this tornado warning at Jul 1, 2005, 5:21 PM EDT for Burlington County, New Jersey. It was in force for 24 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 1, 2005, 5:21 PM EDT (21:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2005, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 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), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 558 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1029 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 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 
WFUS51 KPHI 012121
TORPHI
NJC005-012145-
/O.NEW.KPHI.TO.W.0003.050701T2121Z-050701T2145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
521 PM EDT FRI JUL 1 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 519 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
  PRESIDENTIAL LAKES...OR ABOUT 23 MILES SOUTH OF TRENTON...MOVING
  EAST AT 20 MPH. LARGE HAIL UP TO BASEBALL SIZE IS ALSO POSSIBLE
  WITH THIS STORM.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  PRESIDENTIAL LAKES BY 530 PM EDT
  BROWNS MILLS BY 535 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 3990 7467 3988 7466 3983 7443 4001 7453

$$

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, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monmouth	75 min
Jul 1, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington	62 min
Jul 1, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Ocean	72 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.