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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 2, 2006Burlington County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2006, 7:52 PM EDT for Burlington County, New Jersey. It was in force for 38 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
Jun 2, 2006, 7:52 PM EDT (23:52 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2006, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Burlington County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 115 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2006-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 33 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2006-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 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
33 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-150 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1013 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 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 022352
SVRPHI
NJC005-030030-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0068.060602T2352Z-060603T0030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
752 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL BURLINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT

* AT 750 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  MEDFORD LAKES...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CAMDEN...AND MOVING
  EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL
  AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.

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 3983 7494 3979 7493 3977 7466 3988 7468

$$

JJM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 8:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonmouth47 min
Jun 1, 8:49 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI116 min
Jun 1, 8:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISalem34 min
Jun 1, 8:59 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI91 min
Jun 1, 9:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIGloucester52 min
Jun 1, 9:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington69 min
Jun 1, 9:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICamden66 min
Jun 2, 12:02 PM EDTFlash Flood WatchPHIBurlington, Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and 6 more17 hr
Jun 2, 1:59 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI91 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.