Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2006, 6:04 PM EDT for Warren County, New Jersey. It was in force for 56 min. 2 reports 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 18, 2006, 6:04 PM EDT (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2006, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Warren County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 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 18, 6:14 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | Phillipsburg, NJ | PENNY SIZE HAIL IN PHILLIPSBURG |
| Jul 18, 6:14 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | Phillipsburg, NJ | PENNY SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN PHILLIPSBURG. |
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 18, 12:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 1100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1804 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 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 182204
SVRPHI
NJC041-182300-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0166.060718T2204Z-060718T2300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
604 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN WARREN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY
* UNTIL 700 PM EDT
* AT 601 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 7 MILES
WEST OF ALPHA...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF BETHLEHEM...AND
MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
ALPHA BY 620 PM EDT...
BRASS CASTLE BY 645 PM EDT...
WASHINGTON BY 650 PM EDT...
LAT...LON 4077 7518 4062 7520 4062 7512 4079 7489
4084 7509
$$
AMCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon | 60 min |
| Jul 18, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris, Somerset | 44 min |
| Jul 18, 7:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Gloucester, Salem | 55 min |
| Jul 18, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 55 min |
| Jul 18, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer | 34 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.