Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2006, 7:18 PM EDT for Gloucester County, New Jersey. It was in force for 57 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 2, 2006, 7:18 PM EDT (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2006, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gloucester County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 1005 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1089 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 022319 SVRPHI NJC015-030015- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0118.060702T2318Z-060703T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 718 PM EDT SUN JUL 2 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GLOUCESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 815 PM EDT * AT 714 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 19 MILES NORTHWEST OF MULLICA HILL...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF WILMINGTON. THE GUST FRONT FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN PHILADELPHIA MIGHT ALSO AFFECT THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY. BOTH STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 8 MILES NORTH OF MULLICA HILL BY 745 PM EDT... 6 MILES NORTH OF TURNERSVILLE BY 800 PM EDT... 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 3986 7521 3972 7536 3959 7503 3977 7505 $$ 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, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Somerset | 46 min |
| Jul 2, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 59 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, 2006Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.