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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

September 8, 1996Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 1996, 6:32 PM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 43 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
Sep 8, 1996, 6:32 PM EDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired
Sep 8, 1996, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
43 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 22:34 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, 10.5 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 1996-09-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 153 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 1996-09-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPHL 082233
SVRPHL
NJC029-082315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ
632 PM EDT SUN SEP 8 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  NEW JERSEY
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN OCEAN COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
 
AT 630 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
BETWEEN LAKEWOOD AND POINT PLEASANT. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT
20 MPH.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  PREPARE FOR STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...
LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAINS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.  SHBOULD THE STORM
APPROACH MOVE INSIDE QUICKLY. DO NOT STAND NEAR WINDOWS.  MOBILE
HOMES ARE MOST VULNERABLE TO HIGH WINDS AND SHOULD BE AVOIDED.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 8, 2:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISomerset40 min
Sep 8, 3:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMiddlesex33 min
Sep 8, 3:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonmouth50 min
Sep 8, 4:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonmouth34 min
Sep 8, 6:34 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIBurlington26 min
Sep 8, 6:48 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBurlington117 min
Sep 8, 6:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington64 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.