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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

January 14, 2006Warren County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 14, 2006, 5:53 AM EST for Warren County, New Jersey. It was in force for 52 min. 1 report 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: Jan 14, 2006, 5:53 AM EST (10:53 UTC)
Expired: Jan 14, 2006, 6:45 AM EST
In force: 52 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), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:55 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
Jan 14, 5:58 AM EST	TSTM WND DMG	Belvidere, NJ	A COUPLE OF TREES AND WIRES DOWNED.

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
Jan 14, 2:46 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 431 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 237 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 141054
SVRPHI
NJC041-141145-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0005.060114T1053Z-060114T1145Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 645 AM EST

* AT 551 AM EST...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN THE LEHIGH VALLEY 
  REPORTED DOWNED TREES IN WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP IN LEHIGH COUNTY
  AND POWER OUTAGES IN NAZARETH BOROUGH. THIS SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM IS LIKELY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60
  MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BELVIDERE...OR
  ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF BETHLEHEM...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BLAIRSTOWN BY 605 AM EST

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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 4094 7481 4092 7481 4067 7511 4072 7518
      4074 7519 4077 7517 4077 7513 4080 7509
      4084 7509 4087 7505 4095 7511 4108 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, 5:19 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cape May	41 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 2006 Every 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.