Alert archive / New Jersey / Tornado Watches in 2006
Tornado Watch 805
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Sep 28, 2006, 7:13 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 28, 2006, 7:13 PM EDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 28, 2006, 11:34 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 24 counties
Kent County, DE, New Castle County, DE, Sussex County, DE, Caroline County, MD, Dorchester County, MD, Somerset County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Worcester County, MD, Atlantic County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Hunterdon County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ, Salem County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Bucks County, PA, Delaware County, PA, Montgomery County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 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 SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | New Castle | 60 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1054 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 4:32 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | New Castle | 118 min |
| Sep 28, 6:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 84 min |
| Sep 28, 2:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Frederick and 6 more | 54 min |
| Sep 28, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Cecil, Charles and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 28, 3:30 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne, Wyoming | 2 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in New Jersey, 2006Tornado Watches in Maryland, 2006Tornado Watches in Pennsylvania, 2006Every tornado watch 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.