Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 17
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jan 14, 2005, 4:40 AM EST for 18 counties in New Jersey; 10 counties in New York; Bucks County, Delaware County, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 14, 2005, 4:40 AM EST (09:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 14, 2005, 9:00 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Atlantic County, NJ, Bergen County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Hunterdon County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Middlesex County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Salem County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Bronx County, NY, Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, New York County, NY, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Queens County, NY, Richmond County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Westchester County, NY, Bucks County, PA, Delaware County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:43 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.
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 4:43 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon | 32 min |
| Jan 14, 5:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris, Somerset | 42 min |
| Jan 14, 5:05 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Passaic | 134 days |
| Jan 14, 5:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Essex, Passaic, Union | 136 days |
| Jan 14, 5:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer | 32 min |
| Jan 14, 5:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen | 135 days |
| Jan 14, 5:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Monmouth | 50 min |
| Jan 14, 5:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Putnam, Westchester | 136 days |
| Jan 14, 5:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Middlesex | 38 min |
| Jan 14, 5:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Hudson | 136 days |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 176 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 587 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 6:34 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 86 min | |
| Jan 14, 2:36 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland and 15 more | 114 min |
| Jan 14, 2:09 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Chemung and 33 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Jersey, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New York, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Pennsylvania, 2005Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.