Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 26, 2006Warren County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2006, 10:24 AM EDT for Warren County, New Jersey. It was in force for 39 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 26, 2006, 10:24 AM EDT (14:24 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2006, 11:03 AM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Warren County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:24 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 182 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 2006-05-26Temperature 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 2006-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 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
1045 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 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 261423
SVRPHI
NJC041-261515-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0037.060526T1424Z-060526T1515Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1024 AM EDT FRI MAY 26 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL WARREN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 1115 AM EDT

* AT 1020 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES WEST OF OXFORD...OR ABOUT 13 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF BETHLEHEM...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  OXFORD BY 1040 AM EDT...
  GREAT MEADOWS AND GREAT MEADOWS-VIENNA BY 1055 AM EDT...

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 4093 7510 4082 7507 4069 7519 4087 7482
      4100 7491

$$

JJM/MPD
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS51 KPHI 261503
SVSPHI

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1101 AM EDT FRI MAY 26 2006

NJC041-261511-
/O.CAN.KPHI.SV.W.0037.000000T0000Z-060526T1515Z/
WARREN NJ-
1101 AM EDT FRI MAY 26 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL WARREN COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEASTERN WARREN COUNTY HAVE 
DECREASED IN INTENSITY AND NO LONGER POSE A THREAT TO THE AREA. THE 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS THEREFORE BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 4093 7510 4082 7507 4069 7519 4087 7482
      4100 7491

$$

JJM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 11:24 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMorris26 min
May 26, 12:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISussex26 min
May 26, 1:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonmouth, Ocean35 min
May 26, 1:46 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI44 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.