Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 544
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 24, 2011, 12:46 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 2011, 12:46 PM EDT (16:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2011, 7:47 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 34 counties
Kent County, DE, New Castle County, DE, Sussex County, DE, Caroline County, MD, Cecil County, MD, Kent County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD, Talbot County, MD, Atlantic County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Hunterdon County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Middlesex County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ, Salem County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Berks County, PA, Bucks County, PA, Carbon County, PA, Chester County, PA, Delaware County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Montgomery County, PA, Northampton County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:47 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 SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Ocean | 43 min |
| Jun 24, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe | 43 min |
| Jun 24, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset | 55 min |
| Jun 24, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, Somerset | 72 min |
| Jun 24, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 38 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 822 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 899 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 4:13 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 92 min |
| Jun 24, 1:05 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Dorchester, Frederick, Howard and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 24, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calvert, Dorchester, Saint Mary's, Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester | 4 hr |
| Jun 24, 11:42 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bergen, Burlington, Camden, Essex, Gloucester, Hudson and 11 more | 3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.