Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

April 24, 2006Cumberland County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2006, 1:22 AM EDT for Cumberland County, New Jersey. It was in force for 53 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
Apr 24, 2006, 1:22 AM EDT (05:22 UTC)
Expired
Apr 24, 2006, 2:15 AM EDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cumberland County, NJ

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:21 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 nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 159 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2006-04-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 760 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2006-04-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
760 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
739 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 240521
SVRPHI
NJC011-240615-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0019.060424T0522Z-060424T0615Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
122 AM EDT MON APR 24 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF VINELAND

* UNTIL 215 AM EDT

* AT 113 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FAIRTON...OR ABOUT 13 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF DOVER...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  FAIRTON BY 135 AM EDT
  BRIDGETON BY 140 AM EDT
  MILLVILLE BY 155 AM EDT
  VINELAND BY 210 AM EDT

LAT...LON 3936 7547 3920 7535 3933 7487 3950 7498

$$

MPD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 24, 2:04 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI41 min
Apr 24, 2:11 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI64 min
Apr 24, 2:28 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICape May62 min
Apr 24, 2:54 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI96 min
Apr 24, 8:55 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIAtlantic50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.