Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2006, 7:59 AM EDT for Somerset County, New Jersey. It was in force for 46 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 5, 2006, 7:59 AM EDT (11:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2006, 8:45 AM 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 12:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 051159 SVRPHI NJC035-051245- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0140.060705T1159Z-060705T1245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 759 AM EDT WED JUL 5 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL SOMERSET COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 845 AM EDT * AT 756 AM 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 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF SOMERVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SOMERVILLE BY 805 AM EDT... 7 MILES NORTH OF MANVILLE BY 810 AM EDT... BOUND BROOK BY 815 AM EDT... DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. LAT...LON 4069 7471 4055 7476 4050 7452 4067 7450 $$ TFG
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS51 KPHI 051223 SVSPHI SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 822 AM EDT WED JUL 5 2006 NJC035-051245- /O.CON.KPHI.SV.W.0140.000000T0000Z-060705T1245Z/ SOMERSET NJ- 822 AM EDT WED JUL 5 2006 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 AM EDT FOR NORTHERN SOMERSET COUNTY... AT 818 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR RARITAN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BOUND BROOK BY 835 AM EDT... MIDDLESEX BY 840 AM EDT... IN ADDITION TO LIKELY DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. LAT...LON 4068 7462 4056 7469 4050 7452 4067 7446 $$ TFG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 7:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon | 46 min |
| Jul 5, 11:19 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 7 more | 16 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:43 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 62 min | |
| Jul 5, 3:20 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 25 min | |
| Jul 5, 3:43 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 47 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.