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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 8, 20115 counties in New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2011, 7:13 PM EDT for 5 counties in New Jersey. It was in force for 77 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 8, 2011, 7:13 PM EDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2011, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 77 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Atlantic County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 8, 1:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 1352 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 668 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 2.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

242 
WUUS51 KPHI 082313
SVRPHI
NJC001-005-009-011-029-090030-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0170.110708T2313Z-110709T0030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
713 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ATLANTIC COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ATLANTIC CITY...
  SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...
  CAPE MAY COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CAPE MAY...
  SOUTHEASTERN CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...
  SOUTHERN OCEAN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT

* AT 708 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 15
  MILES SOUTH OF FORTESQUE...OR 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DOVER...AND
  MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  GREEN CREEK AND RIO GRANDE AROUND 740 PM EDT...
  GOSHEN AROUND 745 PM EDT...
  CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE AND SCOTCH BONNET AROUND 750 PM EDT...
  AVALON AND STONE HARBOR AROUND 755 PM EDT...
  SEA ISLE CITY AND SEAVILLE AROUND 800 PM EDT...
  STRATHMERE AROUND 805 PM EDT...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY! LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES GREATEST KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR
WITH THESE STORMS AND CAUSE LOW-LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING.

PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...1-877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR DELAWARE AND NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND AND SOUTHERN NEW
JERSEY.

&&

LAT...LON 3981 7407 3968 7412 3952 7425 3950 7433
      3953 7434 3953 7440 3949 7438 3949 7432
      3945 7429 3935 7441 3930 7455 3899 7479
      3892 7497 3899 7498 3915 7490 3920 7505
      3917 7514 3926 7523 3998 7405
TIME...MOT...LOC 2311Z 258DEG 31KT 3904 7523

$$

NIERENBERG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 8:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland	80 min
Jul 7, 8:42 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		2 hr
Jul 7, 10:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cape May	53 min
Jul 7, 10:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Warren	28 min
Jul 8, 3:58 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 10 more	19 hr
Jul 8, 4:34 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon	56 min
Jul 8, 12:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic	57 min
Jul 8, 12:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic, Camden, Gloucester	64 min
Jul 8, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem	93 min
Jul 8, 2:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Warren	82 min
Jul 8, 2:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem	7 hr
Jul 8, 2:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer, Warren	54 min
Jul 8, 2:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer	3 hr
Jul 8, 3:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Mercer	57 min
Jul 8, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset	66 min
Jul 8, 3:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset	3 hr
Jul 8, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Warren	76 min
Jul 8, 3:48 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Camden	3 hr
Jul 8, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren	69 min
Jul 8, 4:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren	3 hr
Jul 8, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Morris, Sussex, Warren	78 min
Jul 8, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden	70 min
Jul 8, 5:03 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Sussex	117 min
Jul 8, 5:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden	27 min
Jul 8, 5:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Mercer and 4 more	3 hr
Jul 8, 5:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Camden, Gloucester, Salem	3 hr
Jul 8, 6:32 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		58 min
Jul 8, 7:24 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Monmouth, Ocean	3 hr
Jul 8, 7:26 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		64 min
Jul 8, 7:50 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		55 min

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.