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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 8, 1996Middlesex County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1996, 7:04 PM EDT for Middlesex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 56 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
Jul 8, 1996, 7:04 PM EDT (23:04 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 1996, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
56 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 23:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 1996-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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 1996-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 108 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1602 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPHL 082306
SVRPHL
NJC023-090000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ
704 PM EDT MON JUL 8 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  NEW JERSEY
 
   ...MIDDLESEX COUNTY
 
AT 700 PM...RADAR CONTINUED TO TRACK A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT HAVE
MOVED FROM MORRIS COUNTY...PRESENTLY THROUGH SOMERSET...AND SOON TO BE
IN MIDDLESEX. THIS LINE IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE SOME DAMAGING WINDS AS IT
MOVES INTO MIDDLESEX COUNTY. THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF HEAVY RAIN AND
WINDS UP TO 45 MPH...HOWEVER...RADAR SHOWED THESE STORMS TO BE MUCH
STRONGER.
 
ALSO...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT.
 
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.
 
 
EBERWINE/KRAUS
 
 
&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 6:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMorris57 min
Jul 8, 6:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISomerset67 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.