Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 22, 1995Gloucester County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1995, 4:23 PM EDT for Gloucester County, New Jersey. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 22, 1995, 4:23 PM EDT (20:23 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 1995, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
37 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 20:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 22, 4:30 PM EDTTornado F0Deptford, NJA severe thunderstorm caused wind damage in the northeast part of Gloucester County. The damage was exacerbated by a weak tornado (F0 on the Fujita Scale) in Deptford Township. The tornado touched down just east of New Jersey State Route 47 in the Southview

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 565 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 1995-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 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
565 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
485 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 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 222026 RRA
SVRPHL
NJC015-222100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ
423 PM EDT SAT JUL 22 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  NEW JERSEY
 
   ...NORTHERN GLOUCESTER COUNTY
 
AT 415 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDCATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN GLOUCESTER COUNTY NEAR MANTUA. TREES HAVE
BEEN REPORTED DOWN WITH THIS STORM.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  PREPARE FOR STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...
LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAINS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.  SHOULD THE STORM
APPROACH0 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
Jul 22, 4:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICamden35 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.