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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

January 14, 2006Cape May County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 14, 2006, 5:19 AM EST for Cape May County, New Jersey. It was in force for 41 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: Jan 14, 2006, 5:19 AM EST (10:19 UTC)
Expired: Jan 14, 2006, 6:00 AM EST
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cape May County, NJ

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:21 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 14, 2:46 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 143 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 23 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 718 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 170 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 141020
SVRPHI
NJC009-141100-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0003.060114T1019Z-060114T1100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
519 AM EST SAT JAN 14 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 600 AM EST

* AT 517 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  MERGING THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS
  IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF 
  CAPE MAY AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WILDWOOD...NORTH WILDWOOD AND RIO GRANDE BY 525 AM EST
  STONE HARBOR...AVALON AND CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE BY 530 AM EST
  SEA ISLE CITY BY 535 AM EST
  WOODBINE BY 540 AM EST
  OCEAN CITY BY 545 AM EST

DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM.
WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A
TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A
STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

LAT...LON 3903 7495 3910 7489 3916 7491 3930 7485
      3929 7464 3926 7462 3929 7460 3930 7456
      3912 7472 3909 7471 3902 7479 3899 7480
      3894 7488 3893 7497

$$

TFG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 14, 4:32 AM EST	Wind Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 10 more	37 hr
Jan 14, 4:50 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	PHI		115 min
Jan 14, 5:53 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Warren	52 min
Jan 14, 5:59 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	PHI		61 min
Jan 14, 6:18 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex	42 min
Jan 14, 3:35 PM EST	Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 10 more	18 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.