Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2006, 7:29 PM EDT for Mercer County, New Jersey. It was in force for 61 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
- Jun 1, 2006, 7:29 PM EDT (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2006, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mercer County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 8:00 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Ewing, NJ | WIRES DOWN COUNTYWIDE |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1055 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 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 012329 SVRPHI NJC021-020030- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0056.060601T2329Z-060602T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 729 PM EDT THU JUN 1 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MERCER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF TRENTON * UNTIL 830 PM EDT * AT 726 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES WEST OF PENNINGTON...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF TRENTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PENNINGTON AND EWING BY 800 PM EDT... LAWRENCEVILLE AND 6 MILES NORTH OF TRENTON BY 810 PM EDT... PRINCETON AND 8 MILES NORTH OF WHITE HORSE BY 820 PM EDT... MERCERVILLE-HAMILTON SQUARE BY 825 PM 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 4035 7495 4017 7474 4021 7460 4038 7464 $$ RPW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 43 min |
| Jun 1, 2:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 63 min | |
| Jun 1, 2:33 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 37 min | |
| Jun 1, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 55 min |
| Jun 1, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon | 42 min |
| Jun 1, 7:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Somerset | 38 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.