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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

September 14, 1995Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 14, 1995, 5:30 PM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 14, 1995, 5:30 PM EDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired
Sep 14, 1995, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

County Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 162 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 1995-09-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 195 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-09-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 100 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
195 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
778 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPHL 142132 RRA
SVRPHL
NJC029-142230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ
530 PM EDT THU SEP 14 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  NEW JERSEY
 
   ...SOUTHERN OCEAN COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
NEW JERSEY STATE FOREST FIRE PERSONNEL REPORTED AN ESTIMATED WIND GUST
TO 70 MPH IN LEBANON STATE FOREST AT 520 PM.  THIS STORM WAS MOVING
EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL PASS THROUGH LACEY TOWNSHIP AND
CLOSE TO BARNEGAT.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  PREPARE FOR STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...
LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAINS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.  SHOULD THE STORM
APPROACH MOVE INSIDE QUICKLY. DO NOT STAND NEAR WINDOWS.  MOBILE
HOMES ARE MOST VULNERABLE TO HIGH WINDS AND SHOULD BE AVOIDED.
 
 
 
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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.