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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 3, 2014Cumberland County, Gloucester County, Salem County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2014, 1:00 AM EDT for Cumberland County, Gloucester County, Salem County, New Jersey. It was in force for 45 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 3, 2014, 1:00 AM EDT (05:00 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2014, 1:45 AM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Cumberland County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Salem County, NJ

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:03 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 nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 2489 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1108 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 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.

502 
WUUS51 KPHI 030500
SVRPHI
NJC011-015-033-030545-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0076.140703T0500Z-140703T0545Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
100 AM EDT THU JUL 3 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL GLOUCESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...
  SALEM COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...
  NORTHWESTERN CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...

* UNTIL 145 AM EDT

* AT 1257 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THESE SEVERE STORMS EXTENDED FROM
  HANCOCKS BRIDGE TO GREENWICH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THESE
  STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING ONE INCH DIAMETER HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. 

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  QUINTON AROUND 105 AM EDT...
  SHILOH AND BRIDGETON AROUND 110 AM EDT...
  SEABROOK FARMS AROUND 115 AM EDT...
  WOODSTOWN AND SEABROOK FARMS AROUND 120 AM EDT...
  OLIVET AND ROSENHAYN AROUND 125 AM EDT...
  ELMER AROUND 130 AM EDT...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...MOVE INDOORS TO A
STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. WHEN IT IS SAFE TO DO
SO...REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OR TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS LINE OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. WHEN THUNDER ROARS...MOVE INDOORS! REMEMBER...
IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY
LIGHTNING.

&&

LAT...LON 3976 7509 3954 7495 3952 7498 3949 7496
      3933 7536 3941 7546 3954 7555 3955 7554
TIME...MOT...LOC 0500Z 237DEG 28KT 3952 7545 3945 7538
          3938 7533

$$

FORECASTER: HEAVENER

1 follow-up statement

880 
WWUS51 KPHI 030530
SVSPHI

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
130 AM EDT THU JUL 3 2014

NJC011-015-033-030545-
/O.CON.KPHI.SV.W.0076.000000T0000Z-140703T0545Z/
GLOUCESTER NJ-SALEM NJ-CUMBERLAND NJ-
130 AM EDT THU JUL 3 2014

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 145 AM EDT
FOR NORTH CENTRAL CUMBERLAND...SALEM AND CENTRAL GLOUCESTER
COUNTIES...

AT 128 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM ELMER TO ROSENHAYN...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 15
MILES NORTH OF BRIDGETON TO 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF VINELAND TO 6 MILES
NORTHWEST OF VINELAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  MALAGA AND FRANKLINVILLE BY 135 AM EDT...
  GLASSBORO...PITMAN...NEWFIELD AND CLAYTON BY 140 AM EDT...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...MOVE INDOORS TO A
STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. WHEN IT IS SAFE TO DO
SO...REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OR TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3952 7498 3949 7496 3939 7523 3959 7545
      3976 7509 3954 7495
TIME...MOT...LOC 0530Z 237DEG 28KT 3965 7520 3958 7513
          3951 7508

$$

SFJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 8:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean	4 hr
Jul 2, 8:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem	52 min
Jul 2, 8:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth	56 min
Jul 2, 8:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset	4 hr
Jul 2, 8:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean	57 min
Jul 2, 8:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Ocean, Salem	67 min
Jul 2, 8:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Monmouth, Ocean	4 hr
Jul 2, 9:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Ocean	44 min
Jul 2, 10:20 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		55 min
Jul 2, 10:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic	60 min
Jul 2, 10:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Burlington, Camden	112 min
Jul 2, 10:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington	62 min
Jul 2, 11:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Burlington	3 hr
Jul 3, 12:19 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		116 min
Jul 3, 12:23 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		67 min
Jul 3, 12:26 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		64 min
Jul 3, 12:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cumberland	50 min
Jul 3, 1:14 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		61 min
Jul 3, 1:19 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 1 more	56 min
Jul 3, 1:52 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Ocean	4 hr
Jul 3, 1:56 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Ocean	53 min
Jul 3, 2:08 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		67 min
Jul 3, 2:34 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monmouth	56 min
Jul 3, 5:46 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	PHI		54 hr
Jul 3, 1:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Warren	38 min
Jul 3, 1:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Warren	24 min
Jul 3, 2:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	52 min
Jul 3, 3:27 PM EDT	High Surf Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Cape May, Monmouth, Ocean	41 hr
Jul 3, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Warren	49 min
Jul 3, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Morris, Sussex	60 min
Jul 3, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	54 min
Jul 3, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex	55 min
Jul 3, 6:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Sussex	4 hr
Jul 3, 6:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Warren	67 min
Jul 3, 6:42 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Sussex	4 hr
Jul 3, 6:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester	44 min
Jul 3, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Sussex, Warren	58 min
Jul 3, 7:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Sussex, Warren	4 hr
Jul 3, 7:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon	55 min
Jul 3, 7:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	61 min
Jul 3, 7:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset	55 min
Jul 3, 7:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer, Morris, Somerset, Warren	65 min
Jul 3, 7:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean	61 min
Jul 3, 7:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset	4 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.