Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 279, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 1, 2006, 5:25 PM EST for Sussex County, Warren County, New Jersey. It was in force for 80 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
- Dec 1, 2006, 5:25 PM EST (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 1, 2006, 6:45 PM EST
- In force
- 80 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Sussex County, NJ, Warren County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1, 6:00 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Belvidere, NJ | TREES AND WIRES REPORTED DOWN COUNTYWIDE. |
| Dec 1, 6:05 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Sussex, NJ | TREES AND WIRES REPORTED DOWN COUNTYWIDE. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1, 3:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 538 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 012226 SVRPHI NJC037-041-012345- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0279.061201T2225Z-061201T2345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 525 PM EST FRI DEC 1 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SUSSEX COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY... WARREN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY... * UNTIL 645 PM EST * AT 524 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED 34 MILES WEST OF BELVIDERE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ALLENTOWN...TO NEAR READING AND WERE MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BELVIDERE BY 550 PM EST... OXFORD BY 555 PM EST... ALLAMUCHY...ALLAMUCHY-PANTHER VALLEY...GREAT MEADOWS AND GREAT MEADOWS-VIENNA BY 600 PM EST... ANDOVER BY 605 PM EST... LAKE MOHAWK BY 610 PM EST... OGDENSBURG BY 615 PM EST... LAT...LON 4132 7470 4100 7506 4062 7517 4119 7435 $$ NIERENBERG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1, 3:54 AM EST | High Wind Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and 5 more | 21 hr |
| Dec 1, 3:54 AM EST | Wind Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 7 more | 21 hr |
| Dec 1, 5:55 PM EST | Tornado Warning | PHI | Warren | 35 min |
| Dec 1, 6:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris | 68 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.