Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 187, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2006, 10:00 PM EDT for Cape May County, New Jersey. It was in force for 60 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 18, 2006, 10:00 PM EDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2006, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cape May County, NJ
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 2454 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1125 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 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 190200 SVRPHI NJC009-190300- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0187.060719T0200Z-060719T0300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1000 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL CAPE MAY COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 1100 PM EDT * AT 952 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE...OR ABOUT 23 MILES SOUTH OF VINELAND...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE BY 1005 PM EDT... AVALON AND STONE HARBOR BY 1020 PM EDT... SEA ISLE CITY BY 1030 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 3926 7488 3904 7490 3898 7458 3920 7453 $$ MPD
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS51 KPHI 190255 SVSPHI SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1054 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006 NJC009-190304- /O.EXP.KPHI.SV.W.0187.000000T0000Z-060719T0300Z/ CAPE MAY NJ- 1054 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL CAPE MAY COUNTY EXPIRES AT 1100 PM EDT... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED OVER THE AREA AND NO LONGER POSE A THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER. LAT...LON 3926 7488 3904 7490 3898 7458 3920 7453 $$ 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, 9:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth, Ocean | 51 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 |
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.