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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 27, 1994Burlington County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1994, 1:48 PM EDT for Burlington County, New Jersey. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 1994, 1:48 PM EDT (17:48 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 1994, 2:30 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

County Burlington County, NJ

The nearest sounding before it

Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 50 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Atlantic City In, NJ at 12:00Z on 1994-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 935 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Atlantic City In, NJ at 12:00Z on 1994-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
935 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
674 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KPHL 271749 RRA
SVRPHL
NJC005-271830-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ
148 PM EDT MON JUN 27 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH NEW JERSEY
 
   ...WESTERN BURLINGTON COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
NEAR BERLIN IN CAMDEN COUNTY. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING
NORTH NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 63 MPH WERE REPORTED IN
THIS STORM AT 1:37 THIS AFTERNOON IN WILLIAMSTOWN N. J.
 
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR SOUTHEASTERN
PENNSYLVANIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY UNTIL 8 PM EDT.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH
LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 1:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISalem33 min
Jun 27, 1:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICumberland61 min
Jun 27, 1:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIGloucester38 min
Jun 27, 1:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICamden26 min
Jun 27, 1:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIAtlantic63 min
Jun 27, 2:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICape May63 min
Jun 27, 3:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICumberland62 min

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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.