STORM2K

Severe Weather Alert from the National Weather Service

...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 450 AM EST SUN OCT 26 2003
... HEAVY RAINFALL AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE ON MONDAY...

AN ACTIVE AND SLOW MOVING FRONTAL SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT OUR REGION LATE SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY EVENING. THE SYSTEM IS CARRYING PLENTY OF MOISTURE WITH IT AND IT HAS THE KIND OF SUPPORT ALOFT THAT COULD TAP THAT MOISTURE TO GENERATE HEAVY RAINFALL. IT ALSO HAS THE KIND OF WIND PROFILE THAT COULD GENERATE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS.

BETWEEN 1.50 AND 2.25 INCHES OF RAIN COULD FALL... MAINLY ON MONDAY BUT PERHAPS BEGINNING LATE SUNDAY NIGHT OVER THE SOUTHERN POCONOS AND THE LEHIGH VALEY... BEFORE THE SYSTEM MOVES TO OUR EAST. SUCH RAINFALL COULD CAUSE SOME FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND OF CREEKS AND STREAMS THAT ARE MOST SUSCEPTIBLE TO FLOODING. MOREOVER... DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN THUNDERSTORMS CANNOT BE RULED OUT. THE MOST LIKELY TIME FOR SUCH WIND GUSTS WOULD BE MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY MONDAY EVENING.


Better get my canoe out!!! I'll have a fun ride home tomorrow night.

Stay safe Steph!

Well, it has been raining most of the time between about 8 PM yesterday and 1 PM today. And some of that rain was VERY heavy. I would say we easily have received over 2 inches of rain, with maybe another 0.5 to 1 inch of rain by 6 PM.

We're getting rain down here in Atlantic City, but it looks like my house is receiving much more to the north. There's been alot of heavy rain bands that have been training right over the Philadelphia area today.

Stay safe and dry!

It's been raining pretty heavily this evening, though it's supposed to let up overnight.

We could use the rain, be I sure wish that this was out West right now!

There were Severe Thunderstorm and Tornado Warnings out of the Mount Holly, New Jersey National Weather Service office this afternoon for counties in New Jersey and Delaware.

I sure wish we would get some rain here to end these dang brush fires. None in our 7 day forecast either.

Here's a story about a possible tornado that hit Burlington County, NJ yesterday. One lady died.

Posted on Tue, Oct. 28, 2003

Hurtling branch kills woman in Hainesport
The woman, reportedly 77, had recently joined a bowling league. The limb flew across the lot on a day of high winds.
By Nora Koch
Inquirer Suburban Staff

HAINESPORT - An elderly woman who had just finished bowling practice was killed outside the Holly Bowl lanes here yesterday by a wind-borne tree limb that flew across a parking lot, struck the woman and her car, then hit another car before landing.

State police, who last night were trying to notify the victim's family, said the tree struck the woman as she got in her car around 3:40 p.m. yesterday. Shortly after, the unidentified woman was pronounced dead at Virtua Memorial Hospital Burlington County in Mount Holly.

The National Weather Service said witnesses reported seeing a small tornado outside the Burlington County bowling alley, on Route 38 in Hainesport. Meteorologists will investigate today whether the damage there, including two felled trees and a downed lamppost, was caused by straight-line winds or a tornado.

Police said the woman was killed by a large limb that broke loose from one of two downed trees on the south side of the bowling alley. The limb was carried toward the woman's car, near the center of the bowling alley's parking lot. After it hit the woman and her windshield, the limb blew to the next row of parking spaces and damaged the front and windshield of another car. The limb finally landed on the opposite side of the bowling alley.

A Holly Bowl employee said the woman, reportedly 77, had joined a bowling league at the lanes just last week. She had finished one of her first practices before she was killed.

Across the state, winds were clocked as high as 55 m.p.h., with some higher speeds in areas of damage, said meteorologist Bob Wanton of the Mount Holly bureau of the National Weather Service. Wanton said the Weather Service had received many reports of tree damage and downed power lines throughout New Jersey yesterday


Thanks for posting that information Tom. I didn't see it until today, but when I left at about 4:30 yesterday afternoon we got a nasty storm that blew through here. Come to think of it, it's probably from the same line of storms that killed that lady - the wind was really whipping around!


Josh - stay safe out there! I don't know how close you are to those fires, but I've been thinking of you!