Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 18, 2006Monmouth County, Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2006, 9:27 PM EDT for Monmouth County, Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 51 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 18, 2006, 9:27 PM EDT (01:27 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 2006, 10:18 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 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, 10:00 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Farmingdale, NJ	A TREE FELL INTO A HOME IN HOWELL TOWNSHIP. NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED. ALSO, TREES REPORTED DOWN COUNTYWIDE.

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, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 123 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1523 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1554 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 190127
SVRPHI
NJC025-029-190230-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0185.060719T0127Z-060719T0230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
927 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MONMOUTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY
  NORTHEASTERN OCEAN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 1030 PM EDT

* AT 919 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 NEAR
  LAKEWOOD...OR ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEW BRUNSWICK...AND
  MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BRICK TOWNSHIP BY 935 PM EDT...
  POINT PLEASANT BEACH...POINT PLESANT BEACH AND MANTOLOKING BY 945
  PM EDT...
  MANASQUAN AND BELMAR BY 950 PM EDT...
  7 MILES SOUTH OF ASBURY PARK BY 955 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 4029 7434 3999 7428 4004 7368 4046 7384
      4053 7407

$$

AMC/MPD

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KPHI 190218
SVSPHI

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1017 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006

NJC025-029-190227-
/O.CAN.KPHI.SV.W.0185.000000T0000Z-060719T0230Z/
MONMOUTH NJ-OCEAN NJ-
1017 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN OCEAN AND
MONMOUTH COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED AWAY FROM THE AREA AND NO LONGER POSE A 
THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EDT
WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN DELAWARE AND NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND
AND NORTHWESTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.

LAT...LON 4029 7434 3999 7428 4004 7368 4046 7384
      4053 7407

$$

AMC

The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 18, 8:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, Somerset	71 min
Jul 18, 8:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington	63 min
Jul 18, 9:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cumberland	61 min
Jul 18, 9:21 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		84 min
Jul 18, 9:37 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		83 min
Jul 18, 9:58 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		2 hr
Jul 18, 10:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cape May	60 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.