Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 24, 1992Burlington County, Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1992, 7:00 PM EDT for Burlington County, Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 24, 1992, 7:00 PM EDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 1992, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Whole counties

Counties Burlington County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 24, 7:45 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Burlington, NJ

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 47 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: 59 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 687 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KACY 242300
SVRACY
NJC001-005-011-029-250000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTIC CITY NJ
700 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTIC CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH NEW JERSEY
 
   ...ATLANTIC COUNTY...BURLINGTON COUNTY...CUMBERLAND COUNTY
   ...OCEAN COUNTY
 
AND FOR THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
AT 655 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING FROM SOUTHEASTERN CAMDEN COUNTY SOUTHWEST
THROUGH SOUTHERN GLOUCESTER ABD EASTERN SALEM COUNTIES. SOME OF THESE
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS IN
EXCESS OF 50 MILES AN HOUR.
 
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAN
D BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
SCURA/HAYES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Salem	46 min
Jun 24, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Cumberland	60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 1992 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.