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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 24, 2006Atlantic County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2006, 6:46 PM EDT for Atlantic County, New Jersey. It was in force for 59 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 24, 2006, 6:46 PM EDT (22:46 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 2006, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Atlantic County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 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

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 117 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 2006-08-24Temperature 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°0°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 2006-08-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 185 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1761 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
185 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 242248
SVRPHI
NJC001-242345-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0243.060824T2246Z-060824T2345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
646 PM EDT THU AUG 24 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN ATLANTIC COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 642 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEASTERN CAMDEN COUNTY. THIS STORM    
  WAS LOCATED NEAR HAMMONTON...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HAMMONTON BY 700 PM EDT...
  ELWOOD AND EGG HARBOR CITY BY 745 PM EDT...

NUMEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAN 
BE EXPECTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM...ALONG WITH DAMAGING WIND.

LAT...LON 3970 7478 3970 7483 3959 7485 3941 7476
      3952 7450

$$

JJM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 24, 5:03 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI57 min
Aug 24, 5:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICumberland31 min
Aug 24, 6:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICamden52 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.