Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2007, 2:37 PM EDT for Morris County, Sussex County, Warren County, New Jersey. It was in force for 38 min. 7 reports 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
- May 16, 2007, 2:37 PM EDT (18:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2007, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Morris County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Warren County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 2:40 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Hackettstown, NJ | TREES AND WIRES REPORTED DOWN IN HACKETTSTOWN. |
| May 16, 2:45 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Nw Hopatcong, NJ | TREES AND WIRES DOWN IN BYRAM TOWNSHIP. |
| May 16, 3:06 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Pompton Lakes, NJ | TREES DOWN ON RAMAPO AVENUE |
| May 16, 3:15 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Franklin Lakes, NJ | TREE FELL ON AN INDIVIDUAL...1008 FRANKLIN ROAD |
| May 16, 3:15 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Pompton Lakes, NJ | TREES DOWN ON RAMAPO AVENUE |
| May 16, 3:15 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Ramsey, NJ | 61 MPH GUST...DOWNED TREES |
| May 16, 3:20 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Wanaque, NJ | NUMEROUS TRES 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 1:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1370 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 161838 SVRPHI NJC027-037-041-161915- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0003.070516T1837Z-070516T1915Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 237 PM EDT WED MAY 16 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MORRIS COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY... SOUTHEASTERN SUSSEX COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY... EAST CENTRAL WARREN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY... * UNTIL 315 PM EDT * AT 234 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ALLAMUCHY-PANTHER VALLEY... OR ABOUT 33 MILES NORTHEAST OF BETHLEHEM...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HOPATCONG AND LAKE MOHAWK BY 245 PM EDT... LAKE TELEMARK AND OGDENSBURG BY 250 PM EDT... KINNELON BY 255 PM EDT... LAT...LON 4095 7487 4075 7497 4112 7387 4134 7402 $$ MPD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Somerset | 55 min |
| May 16, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Gloucester | 52 min |
| May 16, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Camden | 40 min |
| May 16, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Salem | 40 min |
| May 16, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 38 min |
| May 16, 5:49 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 116 min | |
| May 16, 6:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 2 hr |
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.