Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2006, 6:51 PM EDT for Somerset County, New Jersey. It was in force for 23 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
- Aug 3, 2006, 6:51 PM EDT (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2006, 7:14 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Somerset County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 1378 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1274 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS51 KPHI 032251
SVRPHI
NJC035-032330-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0229.060803T2251Z-060803T2330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
651 PM EDT THU AUG 3 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL SOMERSET COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY
* UNTIL 730 PM EDT
* AT 648 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 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF
SOMERVILLE...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEW BRUNSWICK...AND
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
SOMERVILLE BY 705 PM EDT...
MANVILLE BY 710 PM EDT...
MILLSTONE BY 715 PM EDT...
LAT...LON 4070 7469 4049 7476 4042 7460 4049 7448
4052 7457 4063 7452
$$
MPD1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS51 KPHI 032314
SVSPHI
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
714 PM EDT THU AUG 3 2006
NJC035-032324-
/O.CAN.KPHI.SV.W.0229.000000T0000Z-060803T2330Z/
SOMERSET NJ-
714 PM EDT THU AUG 3 2006
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL SOMERSET COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT
THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR
NORTHWESTERN NEW JERSEY AND NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.
LAT...LON 4070 7469 4049 7476 4042 7460 4049 7448
4052 7457 4063 7452
$$
MPDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Warren | 41 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.