Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 29, 1995Burlington County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1995, 7:38 PM EDT for Burlington County, New Jersey. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 1995, 7:38 PM EDT (23:38 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1995, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

County Burlington County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 188 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 301 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
485 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
301 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
395 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPHL 292340
SVRPHL
NJC005-300030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ
738 PM EDT MON MAY 29 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  820 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  NEW JERSEY
 
   ...BURLINGTON COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON THE DELAWARE RIVER WAS ABOUT TO ENTER
BURLINGTON COUNTY NEAR PALMYRA.  IT WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES
AN HOUR AND SHOULD FOLLOW A LINE ALONG STATE ROUTE 70 PASSING
NEAR MOUNT LAUREL...SOUTHAMPTON AND UPTON.
 
DIME TO PENNY SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WAS THIS STORM IN SOUTHWEST
MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
 
HEAVY RAINS WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
STREAMS AND UNDERPASSES VERY QUICKLY.  DO NOT DRIVE YOUR CAR INTO
AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.  THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER
THAN YOU THINK.  IF CAUGHT IN RISING WATERS...dABANDON YOUR CAR
QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
 
&
TG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 6:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMorris, Sussex35 min
May 29, 6:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington, Mercer54 min
May 29, 6:45 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIBurlington45 min
May 29, 7:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonmouth, Ocean49 min
May 29, 7:56 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIBurlington49 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.