Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 107, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1996, 2:08 AM EDT for Burlington County, New Jersey. It was in force for 67 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 1996, 2:08 AM EDT (06:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 1996, 3:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 67 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 06:09 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 00:00Z, 6.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 311 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1174 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPHL 240609 SVRPHL NJC005-240715- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ 208 AM EDT SAT AUG 24 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NEW JERSEY ...BURLINGTON COUNTY AT 205 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BURLINGTON CITY IN BURLINGTON COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS MAY ACCOMANY THIS STORM AS IT MOVES ACROSS BURLINGTON COUNTY. 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. 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...ABANDON YOUR CAR QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
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, Aug 23, 8:12 PM EDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before
PAZ054-055-240100 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLATION.. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ 815 PM EDT FRI AUG 23 1996 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF CARBON AND MONROE... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PORTION OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA TO INCLUDE CARBON AND MONROE COUNTIES. THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL EXPECTED TONIGHT...HOWEVER...THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS NO LONGER AS STRONG. ALL THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND DO PRODUCE DEADLY LIGHTNING STRIKES THAT KILL. ONE PERSON IN SUSSEX COUNTY NEW JERSEY NEAR THE TOWN OF ANDOVER WAS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING AROUND 730 PM EDT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE MOVING SOUTHEAST ACROSS EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY TONIGHT. MHOON
Local storm report, Aug 23, 8:32 PM EDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA, PA
831 PM EDT FRI AUG 23 1996
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0727 PM ANDOVER NJ
08/23/96 SUSSEX *** 1 INJ ***
MAN STRUCK BY LIGHTNING AT
HOME DRIVEWAY WHILE
WO RKING ON AUTO. HE WAS
KNOCKED TO GROUND AND
RECEIVED LEG BURNS. REPORT
BY LAKE LAND EMERGENCY SQUAD
MHOONLocal storm report, Aug 23, 8:36 PM EDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before
STORM REPORT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA, PA
834 PM EDT FRI AUG 23 1996
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0727 PM ANDOVER NJ
08/23/96 SUSSEX *** 1 INJ ***
MAN STRUCK BY LIGHTNING AT
HOME DRIVEWAY WHILE
WORKING ON AUTO. HE WAS
KNOCKED TO GROUND AND
RECEIVED LEG BURNS. REPORT
BY LAKE LAND EMERGENCY SQUAD
730 PM0 SPARTA NJ
08/23/96 SUSSEX *** DAMAGE ***
HOME AND TREE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
MHOONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 12:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Mercer | 115 min |
| Aug 24, 2:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington | 115 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
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.