Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

November 8, 1996Gloucester County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 8, 1996, 7:39 PM EST for Gloucester County, New Jersey. It was in force for 36 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
Nov 8, 1996, 7:39 PM EST (00:39 UTC)
Expired
Nov 8, 1996, 8:15 PM EST
In force
36 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 00:42 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Nov 8, 8:00 PM ESTThunderstorm WindFranklinville, 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

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 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 00:00Z on 1996-11-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1357 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 00:00Z on 1996-11-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 170 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1357 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
486 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
170 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
175 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
7.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPHL 090039 RRA
SVRPHL
NJC015-090115-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ
739 PM EST FRI NOV 8 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS
ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN  NEW JERSEY

   ...GLOUCESTER COUNTY
 
AT 735 PM EST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NWS DOPPLER
RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 10 MILES SOUTH OF SWEDESBORO MOVING NORTH
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

THIS STORM HAS DOWNED TREES AND POWER LINES IN PITTSGROVE TOWNSHIP
AND ELSINBORO IN SALEM COUNTY WITHIN THE PAST FEW MINUTES.

THIS STORM MAY AFFECT THE FOLLOWING NEARBY AREAS... SWEDESBORO...
MULLICA HILL... ALMONESSON... CENTER SQUARE... AURA... CLAYTON...
BRIDGEPORT... BARNSBORO... GLASSBORO... PITMAN... GIBBSTOWN...
CLARKSBORO... MANTUA... WENONAH... PAULSBORO... WOODBURY HEIGHTS AND
WOODBURY.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER NOW.  AFTER THE
STORM HAS PASSED...REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER OR FLOODING TO YOUR
LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND HAVE THEM RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER
REPORT ON TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN WINDS GREATER THAN 58 MILES AN HOUR...
DIME SIZE HAIL OR LARGER...VERY HEAVY RAINS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...THE VOICE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE...OR TO COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE
LATEST STORM INFORMATION.
 
AMC/TFG
&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 8, 7:21 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICumberland, Salem49 min
Nov 8, 8:29 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISussex46 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.