Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1996, 7:58 PM EDT for Burlington County, New Jersey. It was in force for 62 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
- Aug 16, 1996, 7:58 PM EDT (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1996, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burlington County, NJ
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 188 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 162358 SVRPHL NJC005-170100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ 758 PM EDT FRI AUG 16 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NEW JERSEY ...NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN PARTS OF BURLINGTON COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM IS ACCOMPANIED BY EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. THERE MAY ALSO BE SOME STRONG WIND GUSTS WITHIN THE STORM ...ALONG WITH SOME HAIL. THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE EAST...AND IT WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT MOUNT LAUREL...MOUNT HOLLY...WRIGHTSTOWN AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES UNTIL 830 OR 900 THIS EVENING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA UNTIL 1100 PM. ALSO...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM. 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...FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION. WN/DI &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Mercer | 50 min |
| 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 |
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.