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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 27, 2007Hunterdon County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2007, 8:28 PM EDT for Hunterdon County, New Jersey. It was in force for 62 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
Jul 27, 2007, 8:28 PM EDT (00:28 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 2007, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hunterdon County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 27, 8:30 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGFlemington, NJNUMEROUS TREES AND WIRES DOWN THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY. OVER A DOZEN FIRE COMPANIES ASSISTING WITH TREE REMOVAL AND EMERGENCY RESPONSES.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 00:00Z on 2007-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 321 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2007-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
321 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
775 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 280028
SVRPHI
NJC019-280130-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0151.070728T0028Z-070728T0130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
828 PM EDT FRI JUL 27 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 930 PM EDT

* AT 821 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
  HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS 
  WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM GLEN GARDNER TO 
  FRENCHTOWN...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  HIGH BRIDGE...CLINTON AND ANNANDALE BY 835 PM EDT...
  CALIFON AND SERGEANTSVILLE BY 840 PM EDT...
  SAND BROOK AND LEBANON BY 845 PM EDT...
  FLEMINGTON BY 850 PM EDT...
  WHITE HOUSE STATION BY 900 PM EDT...

THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY
RESULT IN LOCALIZED AREAS OF FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE IN AREAS WHERE
WATER IS CROSSING THE ROAD.

LAT...LON 4051 7477 4050 7480 4046 7478 4042 7480
      4044 7506 4053 7506 4057 7512 4065 7508
      4068 7504 4069 7500 4071 7497 4076 7491
      4071 7473

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SZATKOWSKI

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 8:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMorris84 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.