Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1994, 3:37 PM EDT for Cape May County, New Jersey. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 1994, 3:37 PM EDT (19:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1994, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 68 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, 7.6 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
- 1779 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1034 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KACY 251937 RRA SVRACY NJC009-252045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTIC CITY NJ 337 PM EDT MON JUL 25 1994 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 ...CAPE MAY COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS AT 3 35PM THIS AFTERNOON A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS BEING DETECTED NEAR OCEAN CITY NEW JERSEY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND 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.
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 25, 2:55 PM EDT, 42 minutes before
PAZ067>071-NJZ015>020-252300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - THUNDERSTORMS CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ 255 PM EDT MON JUL 25 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS ON THE INCREASE... THUNDERSTORMS ARE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA WITH SEVERAL VERY HEAVY ONES IN A LINE. THE LINE WAS LOCATED OVER LANCASTER AND BERKS COUNTIES. IT WILL MOVE INTO CHESTER AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES BETWEEN 315 PM 330 PM AND MAY PRODUCE A WIND GUSTS OF 45 TO 50 MPH. OTHER HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE EXITING THE SOUTHERN PART OF GLOUCESTER COUNTY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT. EBERWINE/ROSS
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 3:03 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
PAZ067>071-NJZ015>020-252300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - THUNDERSTORMS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ 155 PM EDT MON JUL 25 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS ON THE INCREASE... THUNDERSTORMS ARE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA WITH SEVERAL VERY HEAVY ONES IN A LINE. THE LINE WAS LOCATED OVER LANCASTER AND BERKS COUNTIES. IT WILL MOVE INTO CHESTER AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES BETWEEN 315 PM 330 PM AND MAY PRODUCE A WIND GUST.S OF 45 TO 50 MPH. OTHER HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE EXITING THE SOUTHERN PART OF GLOUCESTER COUNTY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT. EBERWINE/ROSS
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 3:05 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
PAZ067>071-NJZ015>020-252300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - THUNDERSTORMS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ 155 PM EDT MON JUL 25 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS ON THE INCREASE... THUNDERSTORMS ARE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA WITH SEVERAL VERY HEAVY ONES IN A LINE. THE LINE WAS LOCATED OVER LANCASTER AND BERKS COUNTIES. IT WILL MOVE INTO CHESTER AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES BETWEEN 315 PM 330 PM AND MAY PRODUCE A WIND GUSTDS OF 45 TO 50 MPH. OTHER HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE EXITING THE SOUTHERN PART OF GLOUCESTER COUNTY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT. EBERWINE/ROSS
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 3:09 PM EDT, 28 minutes before
PAZ067>071-NJZ015>020-252300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - THUNDERSTORMS CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ 255 PM EDT MON JUL 25 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS ON THE INCREASE... THUNDERSTORMS ARE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA WITH SEVERAL VERY HEAVY ONES IN A LINE. THE LINE WAS LOCATED OVER LANCASTER AND BERKS COUNTIES. IT WILL MOVE INTO CHESTER AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES BETWEEN 315 PM 330 PM AND MAY PRbODUCE A WIND GUSTS OF 45 TO 50 MPH. OTHER HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE EXITING THE SOUTHERN PART OF GLOUCESTER COUNTY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT. EBERWINE/ROSS
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 3:10 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
PAZ048-054-055-058-060-061-062-252030-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALLENTOWN PA...CORRECTION
245 PM EDT MON JUL 25 1994
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9 PM...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 9 PM EDT FOR ALL OF EAST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AND THE
POCONOS. THIS INCLUDES NORTHAMPTON...LEHIGH...BERKS...SCHUYLKILL...
CARBON...MONROE AND PIKE COUNTIES. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE
DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE WATCH AREA. SOME OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS AND GUSTY WINDS.
AT 245 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG
THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN LEBANON COUNTY. THE MOVEMENT IS TO THE EAST
AT 20 TO 30 MPH AND THIS WILL TAKE IT OVER THE LOWER HALF OF BERKS
COUNTY WITHIN THE HOUR. IF YOU SEE THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS...
TAKE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHE.R RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO
STATIONS FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
FUNKSpecial weather statement, Jul 25, 3:28 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
NJZ019>026-501-250315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTIC CITY NJ 328 PM EDT MON JUL 25 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR ALL OF NEW JERSEY UNTIL 9 PM... AT 328 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE VERY STRONG WIND AND HAIL OVER NORTHERN CAPE MAY COUNTY NEW JERSEY THHT WILL BE OVER OCEAN CITY NEW JERSEY SOON. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS OVER LONG BEACH ISLAND PCEAN COUNTY NEW JERSEY AND WILL BE IN THE COASTAL WATERS SOON. ANOTHER STORM WITH HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE STRONG WIND AND HAIL WAS NEAR THE CHESTER COUNTY BORDER OF SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER MARYAND. ALL OF THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AND RAPID ROADWAY FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. VAM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 1:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Salem | 48 min |
| Jul 25, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer | 44 min |
| Jul 25, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 67 min |
| Jul 25, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Middlesex | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.