Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1992, 3:46 PM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 1992, 3:46 PM EDT (19:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1992, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ocean County, NJ
The nearest sounding before it
Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 1693 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1217 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KACY 151946 SVRACY NJC029-152045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTIC CITY NJ 346 PM EDT WED JUL 15 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTIC CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH NEW JERSEY ...OCEAN COUNTY AND FOR THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS AT 340 THIS AFTERNOON RADAR WAS OBSERVING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES WEST OF POINT PLEASANT. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.e FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. JIK
What 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, Jul 15, 2:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
PAZ011-016- 152000 - SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALLENTOWN PA 200 PM EDT WED JUL 15 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE POCONOS AND LEHIGH VALLEY OF EAST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... AT 145 PM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FROM 200 PM EDT UNTIL 8 PM EDT FOR PERSONS IN PIKE...MONROE... CARBON...SCHUYLKILL...LEHIGH...BERKS AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. AT 200 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS STRECHING FROM ELMIRA NEW YORK SOUTHWEST TO NEAR ALTOONA PENSYLVANIA. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 45 MPH. A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... ILOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BLACKBURN
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 2:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
PAZ011-016- 152000 - SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALLENTOWN PA 200 PM EDT WED JUL 15 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE POCONOS AND LEHIGH VALLEY OF EAST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... AT 145 PM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FROM 200 PM EDT UNTIL 8 PM EDT FOR PERSONS IN PIKE...MONROE... CARBON...SCHUYLKILL...LEHIGH...BERKS AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. AT 200 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS STRECHING FROM ELMIRA NEW YORK SOUTHWEST TO NEAR ALTOONA PENSYLVANIA. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 45 MPH. A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... LOCAL TELELVISION AND RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BLACKBURN
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 2:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
NJZ003-004-006-151900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTIC CITY, NJ 215 PM EDT WED JUL 15 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM FOR OCEAN AND BURLINGTON COUNTIES OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY... A FRONT ACROSS CENTRAL NEW JERSEY INTO CENTRAL PENNSLYVANIA WITH AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS AHEAD OF IT MAY CAUSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NEW JERSEY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING THAT MAY BECOME SEVERE. A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AREA CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...HAIL 3/4 INCH OR GREATER AND ALWAYS DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED= TO NOAA WATHER RADIO...LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MENNELLA/MCDONALD
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 2:53 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
PAZ011-016- 152030 - SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALLENTOWN PA 250 PM EDT WED JUL 15 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE POCONOS AND LEHIGH VALLEY OF EAST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FROM 200 PM EDT UNTIL 9 PM EDT FOR PERSONS IN PIKE...MONROE... CARBON...SCHUYLKILL...LEHIGH...BERKS AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. AT 245 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MAHANOY CITY IN SCHUYLKILL COUNTY. OTHER VERY INTENSE STORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH COLUMBIA COUNTY. THE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...l LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BLACKBURN
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 2:55 PM EDT, 51 minutes before
DEZ003-002-001-152200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON DE 251 PM EDT WED JUL 15 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF DELAWARE UNTIL 10 PM... THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 10 PM FOR THE ENTIRE STATE OF DELAWARE INCLUDING THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING FROM THESE STORMS. PRESENTLY THERE IS A NEWLY DEVELOPED THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN NEW CASTLE COUNTY. WE CAN EXPECT FURTHER DEVELOPMENT THROUGHOUT THE STATE LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO DEVELOPING IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA INTO PENNSYLVANIA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS EVENING. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE INTO A REINFORCED BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. lIF YOU ARE ON THE WATER...PUT ASHORE IMMEDIATELY. REMEMBER THAT LIGHTNING CAN BE A KILLER EVEN IF THE THUNDERSTORM IS A GOOD DISTANCE AWAY. ROETS
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 3:10 PM EDT, 36 minutes before
NJZ003-004-006-160200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTIC CITY, NJ 310 PM EDT WED JUL 15 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY UNTIL 10 PM EDT... A WEAK COLD FRONT DROPPING SOUTHEAST OUT OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA WILL MOVE INTO THE MUCH MORE HUMID AND UNSTABLE AIR ACROSS SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. THIS WILL HELP TO CAUSE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO MOVE INTO SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. XMCDONALD/MENNELLA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Gloucester, Salem | 68 min |
| Jul 15, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Camden | 55 min |
| Jul 15, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Mercer | 68 min |
| Jul 15, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Ocean | 67 min |
| Jul 15, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cumberland | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 1992Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.