Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 2006, 2:29 PM EDT for Morris 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 12, 2006, 2:29 PM EDT (18:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2006, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Morris County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:32 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 12, 12:42 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 1031 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1039 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 121829 SVRPHI NJC027-121915- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0152.060712T1829Z-060712T1915Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 229 PM EDT WED JUL 12 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL MORRIS COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 315 PM EDT * AT 224 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MORRISTOWN...OR ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF NEWARK...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MADISON BY 235 PM EDT... PARSIPPANY BY 240 PM EDT... EAST HANOVER BY 245 PM EDT... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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 4083 7460 4072 7457 4077 7408 4098 7417 $$ NIERENBERG
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, 12:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Warren | 52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.