Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 2006, 12:53 PM EDT for Warren County, New Jersey; Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 52 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 12, 2006, 12:53 PM EDT (16:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2006, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Warren County, NJ, Northampton County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:56 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 12, 1:00 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Wsw Warre, NJ | WIRES DOWN |
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 12, 12:42 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 264 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1166 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 121653 SVRPHI NJC041-PAC095-121745- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0151.060712T1653Z-060712T1745Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1253 PM EDT WED JUL 12 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA WARREN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 145 PM EDT * AT 1252 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 NEAR BELVIDERE...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF BETHLEHEM...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... OXFORD BY 105 PM EDT... GREAT MEADOWS...GREAT MEADOWS-VIENNA AND 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BLAIRSTOWN BY 125 PM EDT... ALLAMUCHY AND ALLAMUCHY-PANTHER VALLEY BY 135 PM 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 4090 7516 4068 7518 4090 7477 4107 7495 $$ MPD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 3:45 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | PHI | Morris, Sussex, Warren | 24 hr |
| Jul 12, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris | 46 min |
| Jul 12, 6:06 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 39 min | |
| Jul 12, 6:57 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 33 min | |
| Jul 12, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May | 42 min |
| Jul 12, 7:33 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 40 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.