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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 16, 2009Gloucester County, Salem County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2009, 5:56 PM EDT for Gloucester County, Salem County, New Jersey. It was in force for 64 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
Jul 16, 2009, 5:56 PM EDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 2009, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Gloucester County, NJ, Salem County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2009-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 119 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2009-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 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
119 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1096 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 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 162156
SVRPHI
NJC015-033-162300-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0121.090716T2156Z-090716T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
556 PM EDT THU JUL 16 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN GLOUCESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...
  NORTHERN SALEM COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 555 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
  WOODSTOWN...OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF SALEM...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ELMER AROUND 630 PM EDT...
  OLIVET AROUND 635 PM EDT...
  CLAYTON AROUND 640 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 3967 7498 3950 7512 3965 7547 3973 7542
TIME...MOT...LOC 2156Z 295DEG 17KT 3967 7536

$$

SZATKOWSKI

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIGloucester, Salem49 min
Jul 16, 6:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington, Camden63 min
Jul 16, 7:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington, Camden, Mercer, Monmouth, Ocean70 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 2009Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009

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.