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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 27, 1994Cape May County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1994, 2:57 PM EDT for Cape May County, New Jersey. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 1994, 2:57 PM EDT (18:57 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 1994, 4:00 PM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

County Cape May County, NJ

The nearest sounding before it

Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 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.

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 
TTAA00 KACY 271857 RRA
SVRACY
NJC009-272000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTIC CITY NJ
257 PM EDT MON JUN 27 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTIC CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH NEW JERSEY
 
   ...CAPE MAY COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
 
AT 2 55PM THIS AFTERNOON...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CAPE
HENLOPEN DELAWARE. THIS STORM WILL ENTER CAPE MAY COUNTY NEAR CAPE MAY
BY 310 THIS AFTERNOON.
 
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPH,ONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
 KRIEGER

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, 1:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington42 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.