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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

October 27, 1995Gloucester County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1995, 11:02 PM EDT for Gloucester County, New Jersey. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 27, 1995, 11:02 PM EDT (03:02 UTC)
Expired
Oct 27, 1995, 11:30 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

County Gloucester County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 200 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 1995-10-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 816 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 1995-10-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 177 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
816 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
890 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
177 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
211 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
5.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPHL 280302 RRA
SVRPHL
NJC015-280330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1102 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  NEW JERSEY
 
   ...GLOUCESTER COUNTY
 
AT 1100 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING
NORTHEAST AT AROUND 50 MPH FROM SALEM COUNTY INTO GLOUCESTER COUNTY.
THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  PREPARE FOR STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...
LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAINS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.  SHO8ULD THE STORM
APPROACH MOVE INSIDE QUICKLY. DO NOT STAND NEAR WINDOWS.  MOBILE
HOMES ARE MOST VULNERABLE TO HIGH WINDS AND SHOULD BE AVOIDED.
 
AMC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 27, 10:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIGloucester31 min
Oct 27, 10:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISalem48 min
Oct 28, 4:59 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonmouth, Ocean61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.