Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 255, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2006, 3:37 AM EDT for Mercer County, New Jersey. It was in force for 38 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 26, 2006, 3:37 AM EDT (07:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2006, 4:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mercer County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 266 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
- 650 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1473 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 260737 SVRPHI NJC021-260815- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0255.060826T0737Z-060826T0815Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 337 AM EDT SAT AUG 26 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MERCER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 415 AM EDT * AT 334 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MERCERVILLE-HAMILTON SQUARE...OR ABOUT NEAR TRENTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL SOUTHEASTERN MERCER COUNTY AT 350 AM 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 4035 7487 4017 7472 4018 7460 4025 7449 $$ EBERWINE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 12:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Camden, Gloucester | 49 min |
| Aug 26, 12:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden | 65 min |
| Aug 26, 3:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Ocean | 51 min |
| Aug 26, 4:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 53 min |
| Aug 26, 5:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington | 46 min |
| Aug 26, 5:24 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 96 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.