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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 267, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 29, 2006Atlantic County, Cape May County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 2006, 6:15 PM EDT for Atlantic County, Cape May County, New Jersey. It was in force for 45 min. 3 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 29, 2006, 6:15 PM EDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired
Aug 29, 2006, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Atlantic County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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 29, 6:45 PM EDTTSTM WND GST 455 Ne Woodbine, NJA THUNDERSTORM WIND GUST TO 45 MPH WAS MEASURED IN TUCKAHOE.
Aug 29, 6:50 PM EDTFUNNEL CLOUDWoodbine, NJA FUNNEL CLOUD AND PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN WOODBINE.
Aug 29, 7:00 PM EDTFUNNEL CLOUD4 N Sea Isle City, NJA FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED IN SEAVILLE. IT WAS OBSERVED AS LOWERING A QUARTER OF THE WAY DOWN TO THE GROUND AT TIMES IN THE VICINITY OF CORSON TAVERN ROAD. NO TOUCHDOWN HOWEVER WAS OBSERVED OR REPORTED.

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

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 29, 1:52 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 119 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 2006-08-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 21 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2006-08-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 98 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
934 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
185 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 292215
SVRPHI
NJC001-009-292300-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0267.060829T2215Z-060829T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
615 PM EDT TUE AUG 29 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 613 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 NEAR ESTELL MANOR...OR ABOUT 10
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF VINELAND...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ESTELL MANOR BY 620 PM EDT...
  8 MILES NORTH OF WOODBINE BY 625 PM EDT...
  CORBIN CITY BY 630 PM EDT...
  SOMERS POINT BY 640 PM EDT...
  OCEAN CITY BY 645 PM EDT...
  LONGPORT AND VENTNOR CITY BY 650 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 3945 7481 3922 7490 3911 7470 3937 7445

$$

AMC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 29, 4:28 PM EDTTornado WarningPHISalem47 min
Aug 29, 4:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIGloucester60 min
Aug 29, 5:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICumberland67 min
Aug 29, 5:41 PM EDTTornado WarningPHISalem49 min
Aug 29, 6:39 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI66 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.