Alert archive / New Jersey / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 1996, 7:20 PM EDT for Burlington County, Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 40 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
- Jun 22, 1996, 7:20 PM EDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1996, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Burlington County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 1042 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 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 222328 TORPHL NJC005-029-501-230000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ 720 PM EDT SAT JUN 22 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NEW JERSEY ...BURLINGTON COUNTY ...OCEAN COUNTY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS RECEIVED REPORTS OF A TORNADO IN THE WRIGHTSTOWN AREA. THE STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AND IT MAY PASS NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF BROWNS MILLS...UPTON AND WHITING. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...MOVE TO A BELOW GROUND SHELTER IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE@ THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID MOBILE HOMES AND CARS FOR PROTECTION. DI/JRP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Warren | 51 min |
| Jun 22, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset | 57 min |
| Jun 22, 5:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Hunterdon | 33 min |
| Jun 22, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Warren | 34 min |
| Jun 22, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer | 68 min |
| Jun 22, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Monmouth, Ocean | 55 min |
| Jun 22, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 69 min |
| Jun 22, 7:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Mercer | 7 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in New Jersey, 1996Every tornado warning in 1996Tornadoes 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.