Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 15, 1996Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1996, 5:01 PM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 34 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 15, 1996, 5:01 PM EDT (21:01 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 1996, 5:35 PM EDT
In force: 34 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 21:05 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, 9.0 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 40 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -211 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 652 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPHL 152102
SVRPHL
NJC029-NJZ501-152135-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ
501 PM EDT MON JUL 15 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS
ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 535 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN  NEW JERSEY

   ...OCEAN COUNTY
 
AT 455 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NWS DOPPLER
RADAR 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF WARREN GROVE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 42
MPH.

THIS STORM MAY AFFECT THE FOLLOWING NEARBY AREAS... WARREN GROVE...
MANAHAWKIN... FORKED RIVER... BEACHWOOD... SOUTH TOMS RIVER...
LAKEHURST... PINE BEACH... TOMS RIVER... LAKEHURST NAS... BARNEGAT
LIGHT... ISLAND HEIGHTS... OCEAN GATE... SEASIDE PARK... SEASIDE
HEIGHTS... LAVALLETTE AND  LAKEWOOD.

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.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND DO NOT
ST<AND NEAR WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM PASSES...UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY.

AMC

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.