Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 267, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
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.
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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 6:45 PM EDT | TSTM WND GST 45 | 5 Ne Woodbine, NJ | A THUNDERSTORM WIND GUST TO 45 MPH WAS MEASURED IN TUCKAHOE. |
| Aug 29, 6:50 PM EDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | Woodbine, NJ | A FUNNEL CLOUD AND PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN WOODBINE. |
| Aug 29, 7:00 PM EDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 4 N Sea Isle City, NJ | A 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 1:52 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 4:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Salem | 47 min |
| Aug 29, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Gloucester | 60 min |
| Aug 29, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cumberland | 67 min |
| Aug 29, 5:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Salem | 49 min |
| Aug 29, 6:39 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 66 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.