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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 2, 2006Somerset County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2006, 6:29 PM EDT for Somerset County, New Jersey. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report 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 2, 2006, 6:29 PM EDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2006, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Somerset County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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 2, 6:40 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	5 Wsw Somerville, NJ	WIRES AND LIMBS DOWN IN HILLSBOROUGH AND BRANCHBURG

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 2, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -287 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1250 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 205 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 
WUUS51 KPHI 022229
SVRPHI
NJC035-022315-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0114.060702T2229Z-060702T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
629 PM EDT SUN JUL 2 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOMERSET COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 627 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10
  MILES WEST OF PEAPACK AND GLADSTONE...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  FAR HILLS AND PEAPACK AND GLADSTONE BY 645 PM EDT...
  SOMERVILLE BY 655 PM EDT...
  BOUND BROOK...MANVILLE AND 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF MILLSTONE BY 700 PM
  EDT...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 4066 7454 4064 7451 4065 7450 4064 7449
      4043 7461 4053 7475 4057 7471 4062 7471
      4063 7473 4072 7472 4073 7467

$$

TFG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 6:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Warren	56 min
Jul 2, 7:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden	59 min
Jul 2, 7:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Gloucester	57 min
Jul 2, 7:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Salem	46 min
Jul 2, 7:31 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		44 min
Jul 2, 7:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		62 min
Jul 2, 7:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Ocean	84 min
Jul 2, 7:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monmouth	61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 2006 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.