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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 237, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 10, 2006Hunterdon County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2006, 6:22 PM EDT for Hunterdon County, New Jersey. It was in force for 38 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
Aug 10, 2006, 6:22 PM EDT (22:22 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 2006, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hunterdon County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 10, 6:30 PM EDTTSTM WND GST 50Annandale, NJA THUNDERSTORM WIND GUST OF 45 TO 50 MPH WAS ESTIMATED BY A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER IN ANNANDALE.
Aug 10, 6:45 PM EDTHAIL 0.25Flemington, NJPEA SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN FLEMINGTON.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 160 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2006-08-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2006-08-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1410 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 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 102223
SVRPHI
NJC019-102300-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0237.060810T2222Z-060810T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
622 PM EDT THU AUG 10 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL HUNTERDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 619 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND    
  DAMAGING WINDS.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CLINTON...OR ABOUT 22 
  MILES EAST OF BETHLEHEM...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CLINTON BY 630 PM EDT...
  ANNANDALE BY 635 PM EDT...
  FLEMINGTON BY 655 PM EDT...
  WHITE HOUSE STATION BY 700 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 4067 7495 4057 7510 4048 7494 4043 7484
      4061 7473 4065 7486

$$

EBERWINE/GORSE
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS51 KPHI 102247
SVSPHI

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
646 PM EDT THU AUG 10 2006

NJC019-102300-
/O.CON.KPHI.SV.W.0237.000000T0000Z-060810T2300Z/
HUNTERDON NJ-
646 PM EDT THU AUG 10 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT
FOR CENTRAL HUNTERDON COUNTY...

AT 644 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE 
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR 
FLEMINGTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM, WHICH COULD 
CAUSE FLOODING OF SOME STREETS AND HIGHWAYS.

PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT 645 PM BY A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER.
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS.

LAT...LON 4064 7497 4058 7510 4048 7497 4043 7484
      4059 7476

$$

GORSE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 3:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISussex38 min
Aug 10, 7:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMorris44 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.