Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1988, 6:36 PM EDT for Gloucester County, Salem County, New Jersey. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 1988, 6:36 PM EDT (22:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1988, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gloucester County, NJ, Salem County, NJ
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 445 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 557 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPHL 222239 COR
SVRPHL
NJC033-015-222330-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA PA
636 PM EDT SUN MAY 22 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF NEW JERSEY
NORTHERN SALEM...WESTERN GLOUCESTER
AT 630 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN
GLOUCESTER COUNTY OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY NEAR GIBBSTOWN
MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR
HAIL UP TO 1 INCH AND STRONG WIND GUSTS WERE REPORTED OVER THE
PAST HOUR AS THIS THUNDERSTORM MOVED THROUGH EXTREME
SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM AND PEOPLE IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD BE
PREPARED FOR STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN
AND LIGHTNING. SHOULD THE STORM APPROACH YOU...SEEK IMMEDIATE
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES ARE MOST VULNERABZLE TO HIGH WINDS AND
SHOULD BE AVOIDED.
HEAVY RAINS WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY CAUSE FLOODING
OF ROADS AND UNDERPASSES.
NPCWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 22, 3:31 PM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA, PA 321 PM EDT SUN MAY 22 1988 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL BUCKS COUNTY AND OVER NORTHERN PHILADELPHIA COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA... AT 315 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL BUCKS COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA. SPOTTERS FROM FURLONG AND FROM WARINGTON REPORTED HEAVY RAIN AND PEA SIZE HAIL AS THE STORM PASSED. RADAR SHOWED A SECOND STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. A SPOTTER FROM THE GLENSIDE/WILLOW GROVE AREA REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN AND PEA SIZE HAIL WITH THIS STORM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 10 TO 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO MERCER AND NORTHERN BURLINGTON COUNTIES IN THE NEXT HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. RESIDENTS OF BUCKS...PHILADELPHIA...MERCER AND BURLINGTON COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THESE STORMS. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. GRW
Special weather statement, May 22, 3:41 PM EDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTIC CITY NJ 335 PM EDT SUN MAY 22 1988 ...THUNDERSTORMS DUMPING HEAVY RAIN AND DROPPING SMALL HAIL... ...SOME MOVING TOWARD THE NEW JERSEY COASTAL WATERS... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MATURED OVER EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND PARTS OF NEW JERSEY. WILLOW GROVE NAS IN SUBURBAN PHILADELPHIA REPOR TED HEAVY RAIN...WITH PEA SIZED HAIL IN THE SAME GENERAL AREA. RADAR SHOWED QUITE A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN A TRACK THAT BEGINS IN CARBON COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA AND EXTENDS SOUTHEAST COVERING MOST OF LEHIGH...BUCKS...MONTGOMERY...NORTH ERN CHESTER AND PHILADELPHIA COUNTIES. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE RECENTLY DEVELOPED OVER OCEAN COUNTY IN JER SEY AND CHANCES ARE THEY WILL REACH THE COAST BEFORE TOO LONG. RADAR SHOWED ONE JUST NORTH OF TOMS RIVER. ANY ONE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. JAE
Special weather statement, May 22, 4:13 PM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
ABPA- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALLENTOWN PA 405 PM EDT SUN MAY 22 1988 ...HEAVY THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN BERKS COUNTY... AT 405 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AND SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS INDICATED A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM NEAR KUTZTOWN IN EASTERN BERKS COUNTY. THIS STORM IS PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE STORM IS MOVING EASTSOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN MONTGOMERY AND WESTERN BUCKS COUNTIES IN THE NEXT HOUR. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN EASTERN SCHUYLKILL COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE EASTSOUTHEAST INTO LEHIGH COUNTY IN THE NEXT HOUR. PEOPLE LIVING IN NORTHERN MONTGOMERY AND WESTERN BUCKS COUNTIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER WHEN THE HEAVY THUNDERSTORM ARRIVES. $$DOVICO
Special weather statement, May 22, 5:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA, PA 515 PM EDT SUN MAY 22 1988 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTH CENTRAL MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA... AT 515 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTH CENTRAL MONTGOMERY COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA... JUST EAST OF POTTSTOWN. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS... LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. ELSEWHERE...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS COVERED A LARGE PORTION OF SOUTHERN BUCKS AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES OF PENNSYLVANIA AND BURLINGTON COUNTY OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. A SEVERE THUNDER!STORM WARNING IN IN EFFECT FOR BURLINGTON COUNTY. 2.10 INCHES OF RAIN FELL AT DOYLESTOWN OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS. NPC
Special weather statement, May 22, 5:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA, PA 523 PM EDT SUN MAY 22 1988 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTH CENTRAL MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA... AT 515 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTH CENTRAL MONTGOMERY COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA... JUST EAST OF POTTSTOWN. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS... LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. ELSEWHERE...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS COVERED A LARGE PORTION OF SOUTHERN BUCKS AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES OF PENNSYLVANIA AND BURLINGTON COUNTY OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. "A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WAS IN EFFECT FOR BURLINGTON COUNTY UNTIL 615 PM EDT. 2.10 INCHES OF RAIN FELL AT DOYLESTOWN OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS. NPC
Special weather statement, May 22, 5:52 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTIC CITY NJ 535 PM EDT SUN MAY 22 1988 ...THUNDERSTORMS DUMPING HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL... AT 530 PM RADAR AT ATLANTIC CITY INDICATED SHOWER AND VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL NEW JERSEY IN BURLLINGTON AND OCEAN CCOUNTIES. IN EAST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA THE HEAVIEST ACTIVITY WAS OVER MONTGOMERY COUNTY AND BUCKS. AN INTENSE STORM WAS MOVING ALONG THE BORDER OF CHESTER AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY AND ANOTHER INTENSE STORM WAS IN PROCESS IN EASTERN BURLINGTON COUNTY. OTHER SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA AND NORTHERN NEW NEW JERSEY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO 4THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY DOWNPOURS... AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. IF THREATENING WEATHER IS OBSERVED...SEEK SHELTER AT ONCE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 45 min |
| May 22, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 62 min |
| May 22, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Ocean | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988
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.