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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 17, 2007Monmouth County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 2007, 7:47 PM EDT for Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was in force for 58 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: Aug 17, 2007, 7:47 PM EDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired: Aug 17, 2007, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Monmouth County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 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
Aug 17, 7:50 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Freehold, NJ	TREES AND WIRES REPORTED DOWN.

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
Aug 17, 1:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 120 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -267 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1465 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.4

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 172347
SVRPHI
NJC025-180045-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0213.070817T2347Z-070818T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
747 PM EDT FRI AUG 17 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL MONMOUTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY...

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT

* AT 745 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  WEST FREEHOLD...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEW BRUNSWICK...AND
  MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  FARMINGDALE...HOWELL AND 6 MILES SOUTH OF HOLMDEL BY 755 PM EDT...
  TINTON FALLS...COLLINGWOOD PARK AND 6 MILES SOUTH OF LINCROFT BY
  800 PM EDT...
  6 MILES SOUTH OF RED BANK BY 805 PM EDT...
  ASBURY PARK AND BELMAR BY 810 PM EDT...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR NORTHERN DELAWARE AND NEW JERSEY AND EASTERN
PENNSYLVANIA.

LAT...LON 4017 7401 4018 7441 4028 7441 4034 7433
      4036 7429 4037 7399
TIME...MOT...LOC 2347Z 275DEG 35KT 4027 7428

$$

JJM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 16, 10:32 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		43 min
Aug 16, 11:12 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		63 min
Aug 16, 11:27 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		48 min
Aug 16, 11:36 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		39 min
Aug 17, 12:29 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		46 min
Aug 17, 2:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Warren	70 min
Aug 17, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon	62 min
Aug 17, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Gloucester	55 min
Aug 17, 3:17 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Warren	43 min
Aug 17, 3:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Somerset	55 min
Aug 17, 3:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Middlesex	69 min
Aug 17, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Morris	49 min
Aug 17, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		2 hr
Aug 17, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Camden	36 min
Aug 17, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monmouth	49 min
Aug 17, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Warren	60 min
Aug 17, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon	58 min
Aug 17, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Morris	64 min
Aug 17, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Somerset	59 min
Aug 17, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		93 min
Aug 17, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monmouth	35 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.