Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1996, 5:06 PM EDT for Mercer County, Somerset County, New Jersey. It was in force for 64 min. 2 reports 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
- Jun 12, 1996, 5:06 PM EDT (21:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1996, 6:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mercer County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 5:28 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Ewing Township, NJ | |
| Jun 12, 5:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Countywide, 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 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 122106 COR SVRPHL NJC021-035-122210- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ 506 PM EDT WED JUN 12 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 610 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NEW JERSEY ...SOMERSET COUNTY ...MERCER COUNTY AT 500 PM...RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN HUNTERDON AND LOWER BUCKS COUNTIES. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE DOWNED TREES IN RARITAN TOWNSHIP IN HUNTERDON COUNTY AND PRODUCED A LARGE NUMBER OF POWER OUTAGES IN LOWER BUCKS COUNTY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA. 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. IF YOU SEE SEVERE WEATHER OR FLOODING...CONTACT 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 LAR&GER...VERY HEAVY RAINS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. FRANKLIN/GIGI &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 62 min |
| Jun 12, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon | 49 min |
| Jun 12, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Middlesex | 55 min |
| Jun 12, 6:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Mercer | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 61 min |
| Jun 12, 7:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Mercer | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.