Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1996, 3:25 PM EDT for Burlington County, Mercer County, New Jersey. It was in force for 50 min. 3 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
- Aug 16, 1996, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1996, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Burlington County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 3:30 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Florence, NJ | |
| Aug 16, 3:31 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Florence, NJ | |
| Aug 16, 3:50 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Chesterfield, 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1320 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 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 161927 COR SVRPHL NJC005-021-162015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION FOR 1ST PGH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ 325 PM EDT FRI AUG 16 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NEW JERSEY ...NORTHERN BURLINGTON COUNTY...SOUTHERN MERCER COUNTY AT 322 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN BUCKS COUNTY PA MOVING INTO NORTHERN BURLINGTON COUNTY NJ AS WELL AS SOUTHERN MERCER COUNTY NJ. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM SHOULD MOVE OVER BORDENTOWN NJ DURING THE NEXT 15 MINUTES. HEAVY RAINS WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND UNDERPASSES VERY QUICKLY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR CAR INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THIN0K. IF CAUGHT IN RISING WATERS...ABANDON YOUR CAR QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. JRP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth, Ocean | 59 min |
| Aug 16, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Ocean | 30 min |
| Aug 16, 7:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington | 114 min |
| Aug 16, 7:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington | 62 min |
| Aug 16, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 62 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.