Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 1996, 3:12 PM EDT for Middlesex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 33 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
- Sep 8, 1996, 3:12 PM EDT (19:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 1996, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
County Middlesex County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 3:15 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | East Brunswick, NJ |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPHL 081913 SVRPHL NJC023-081945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ 312 PM EDT SUN SEP 8 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NEW JERSEY ...NORTHEASTERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY AT 310 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH NORTHEASTERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY NJ. THE STORM HAS PRODUCED 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN 40 MINUTES IN SOUTH PLAINFIELD. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL OCCUR WITH THIS SOTRM...AND IT HAD DOWNED TREES IN SOMERSET COUNTY EARLIER. THE STORM WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. 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, Sep 8, 12:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
PAZ067>071-DEZ001>003-NJZ015>023-092300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...HOT AND HUMID NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1220 PM EDT SUN SEP 08 1996 ...HOT AND HUMID THIS AFTERNOON AND AGAIN MONDAY... IT TOOK A LONG TIME THIS SUMMER...BUT THE HEAT AND HUMIDITY HAS FINALLY ARRIVED. TEMPERATURES THIS AFTERNOON WILL REACH ABOVE 90 WITH HIGH HUMIDITY. THE COMBINATION OF THE HEAT AND HUMIDITY WILL ALLOW THE HEAT INDEX TO REACH WELL INTO THE 90S THIS AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES WILL AGAIN APPROACH 90 MONDAY AFTERNOON AND HUMIDITY WILL ALSO BE HIGH. THE HUMIDITY AND DISCOMFORT WILL CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT. WHEN THE HEAT INDEX MOVES UP INTO THE 90S...SUNSTROKE...HEAT CRAMPS AND HEAT EXHAUSTION ARE POSSIBLE WITH PROLONGED EXPOSURE AND/OR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. THE ELDERLY AND INFIRMED ARE MOST SUSCEPTIBLE TO HEAT RELATED PROBLEMS. IF POSSIBLE...STAY IN AIR CONDITIONED BUILDINGS AND IN WELL VENTILATED AREAS. RNS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Somerset | 40 min |
| Sep 8, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth | 50 min |
| Sep 8, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth | 34 min |
| Sep 8, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Ocean | 43 min |
| Sep 8, 6:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Burlington | 26 min |
| Sep 8, 6:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington | 117 min |
| Sep 8, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 64 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.