Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2015, 6:10 PM EDT for 5 counties in New Jersey. It was in force for 50 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
- May 16, 2015, 6:10 PM EDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2015, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Warren County, NJ
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 903 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
913
WUUS51 KPHI 162210
SVRPHI
NJC019-027-035-037-041-162300-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0008.150516T2210Z-150516T2300Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
610 PM EDT SAT MAY 16 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN WARREN COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN NEW JERSEY...
NORTHEASTERN HUNTERDON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN NEW JERSEY...
MORRIS COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY...
SOUTH CENTRAL SUSSEX COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN NEW JERSEY...
NORTHWESTERN SOMERSET COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY...
* UNTIL 700 PM EDT
* AT 610 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER GREENDELL...OR NEAR
NEWTON...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
HOPATCONG AND HACKETTSTOWN AROUND 615 PM EDT.
STANHOPE AND BEATYESTOWN AROUND 620 PM EDT.
MOUNT ARLINGTON...NETCONG...BUDD LAKE AND LONG VALLEY AROUND 625 PM
EDT.
SUCCASUNNA AND SUCCASUNNA-KENVIL AROUND 630 PM EDT.
DOVER...WHARTON...CHESTER AND VICTORY GARDENS AROUND 635 PM EDT.
MENDHAM AROUND 640 PM EDT.
MORRIS PLAINS AND PEAPACK AND GLADSTONE AROUND 645 PM EDT.
MORRISTOWN AND FAR HILLS AROUND 650 PM EDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE WHITE
MEADOW LAKE...BERNARDSVILLE...BEATTYESTOWN AND HANOVER TOWNSHIP.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY
LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY
RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER
COVERS THE ROAD.
&&
LAT...LON 4080 7435 4064 7478 4071 7483 4071 7484
4072 7483 4096 7499 4104 7470 4083 7433
TIME...MOT...LOC 2210Z 317DEG 25KT 4096 7479
$$
ROBERTSON1 follow-up statement
541
WWUS51 KPHI 162239
SVSPHI
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
639 PM EDT SAT MAY 16 2015
NJC019-027-035-037-041-162300-
/O.CON.KPHI.SV.W.0008.000000T0000Z-150516T2300Z/
WARREN NJ-HUNTERDON NJ-MORRIS NJ-SUSSEX NJ-SOMERSET NJ-
639 PM EDT SAT MAY 16 2015
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT
FOR EAST CENTRAL WARREN...NORTHEASTERN HUNTERDON...CENTRAL MORRIS...
SOUTH CENTRAL SUSSEX AND NORTHWESTERN SOMERSET COUNTIES...
AT 639 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE
OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60
MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MENDHAM...OR 7 MILES WEST OF
MORRISTOWN. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.
THIS SEVERE STORM WILL BE NEAR...
MORRIS PLAINS AROUND 645 PM EDT.
MORRISTOWN AND FAR HILLS AROUND 650 PM EDT.
MADISON AROUND 700 PM EDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
BERNARDSVILLE...HANOVER TOWNSHIP AND WHITE MEADOW LAKE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY
LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY
RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER
COVERS THE ROAD.
&&
LAT...LON 4080 7435 4064 7478 4071 7483 4071 7484
4072 7483 4089 7487 4097 7466 4083 7433
TIME...MOT...LOC 2239Z 317DEG 25KT 4082 7462
$$
ROBERTSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 49 min |
| May 16, 6:03 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Morris, Sussex, Warren | 3 hr |
| May 16, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset | 37 min |
| May 16, 6:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Sussex, Warren | 3 hr |
| May 16, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Warren | 26 min |
| May 16, 7:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Morris, Somerset | 11 min |
| May 16, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Middlesex, Morris, Somerset | 28 min |
| May 16, 7:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon | 41 min |
| May 16, 7:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 23 min |
| May 16, 7:57 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Hunterdon, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Somerset, Sussex | 3 hr |
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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.