Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 15, 2006Middlesex County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2006, 7:29 PM EDT for Middlesex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 31 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
May 15, 2006, 7:29 PM EDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 2006, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Middlesex County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 144 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2006-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2006-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 186 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
981 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
186 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
226 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 152329
SVRPHI
NJC023-160030-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0034.060515T2329Z-060516T0030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
729 PM EDT MON MAY 15 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MIDDLESEX COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT

* AT 727 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CLEARBROOK PARK...OR ABOUT 14 MILES EAST OF
  TRENTON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CLEARBROOK PARK BY 735 PM EDT
  DAYTON BY 740 PM EDT
  JAMESBURG BY 745 PM EDT
  EAST BRUNSWICK BY 755 PM EDT
  OLD BRIDGE BY 800 PM EDT
  SAYREVILLE BY 805 PM EDT

LAT...LON 4031 7459 4024 7448 4029 7439 4044 7422
      4055 7434

$$

NIERENBERG
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS51 KPHI 160000
SVSPHI

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
800 PM EDT MON MAY 15 2006

NJC023-160008-
/O.CAN.KPHI.SV.W.0034.000000T0000Z-060516T0030Z/
MIDDLESEX NJ-
800 PM EDT MON MAY 15 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MIDDLESEX COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED AND SEVERE WEATHER IS
NO LONGER EXPECTED.

LAT...LON 4031 7459 4024 7448 4029 7439 4044 7422
      4055 7434

$$

NIERENBERG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 12:56 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI94 min
May 15, 6:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIGloucester48 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.