Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 2016, 1:56 PM EST for Morris County, Sussex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 38 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
- Feb 16, 2016, 1:56 PM EST (18:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2016, 2:34 PM EST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Morris County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:56 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 754 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 391 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 363 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
297
WUUS51 KPHI 161856
SVRPHI
NJC027-037-162000-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0004.160216T1856Z-160216T2000Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
156 PM EST TUE FEB 16 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SUSSEX COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN NEW JERSEY...
MORRIS COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY...
* UNTIL 300 PM EST
* AT 153 PM EST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED OVER SUSSEX...OR 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF WEST
MILFORD... AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. SEVERE GUSTY WINDS UP
TO 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE ALONG THE ENTIRE LINE OF HEAVY SHOWERS
EXTENDING FROM NEAR HIGH POINT SOUTHEAST THROUGH MORRIS COUNTY.
* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
VERNON VALLEY AROUND 200 PM EST.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE WHITE
MEADOW LAKE...HANOVER TOWNSHIP AND BERNARDSVILLE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MAY CONTAIN LITTLE OR NO LIGHTNING. DO NOT
WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR THUNDER BEFORE TAKING COVER.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 4120 7437 4110 7449 4104 7450 4105 7447
4097 7428 4092 7429 4090 7427 4091 7433
4083 7433 4079 7437 4074 7437 4073 7453
4076 7457 4072 7473 4073 7475 4135 7475
4136 7469
TIME...MOT...LOC 1853Z 217DEG 54KT 4118 7460
$$
JJM1 follow-up statement
533
WWUS51 KPHI 161934
SVSPHI
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
234 PM EST TUE FEB 16 2016
NJC027-037-161942-
/O.CAN.KPHI.SV.W.0004.000000T0000Z-160216T2000Z/
SUSSEX NJ-MORRIS NJ-
234 PM EST TUE FEB 16 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SUSSEX AND MORRIS COUNTIES IS
CANCELLED...
THE SEVERE WINDS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE
WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 4120 7437 4110 7449 4104 7450 4105 7447
4097 7428 4092 7429 4090 7427 4091 7433
4083 7433 4079 7437 4074 7437 4073 7453
4076 7457 4072 7473 4073 7475 4135 7475
4136 7469
TIME...MOT...LOC 1932Z 217DEG 54KT 4166 7412
$$
JJMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 11:15 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem | 60 min |
| Feb 16, 12:09 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 4 more | 51 min |
| Feb 16, 12:11 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 4 more | 49 min |
| Feb 16, 12:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Hunterdon and 3 more | 46 min |
| Feb 16, 12:34 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Salem | 4 hr |
| Feb 16, 12:52 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Salem, Sussex and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 16, 1:04 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Somerset and 1 more | 116 min |
| Feb 16, 1:11 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem | 4 hr |
| Feb 16, 1:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth and 3 more | 94 min |
| Feb 16, 1:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren | 39 min |
| Feb 16, 1:22 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 9 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 16, 1:39 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 51 min | |
| Feb 16, 2:29 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 91 min | |
| Feb 16, 3:43 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | PHI | 60 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.