Alert archive / New Jersey / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this tornado warning at Sep 8, 1996, 6:34 PM EDT for Burlington County, New Jersey. It was in force for 26 min. 4 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
- Sep 8, 1996, 6:34 PM EDT (22:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 1996, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burlington County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 6:40 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Burlington, NJ | |
| Sep 8, 6:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Florence, NJ | |
| Sep 8, 7:00 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Mt Holly, NJ | |
| Sep 8, 7:00 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Jobstown, 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, 10.6 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
- 153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPHL 082235 TORPHL NJC005-082300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ 634 PM EDT SUN SEP 8 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NEW JERSEY ...NORTHERN BURLINGTON COUNTY AT 630 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER BURLINGTON CITY AND FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED NEAR WILLINGBORO. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...MOVE TO A BELOW GROUND SHELTER IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A SMALL CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. ABANHDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Somerset | 40 min |
| Sep 8, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Middlesex | 33 min |
| Sep 8, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth | 50 min |
| Sep 8, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth | 34 min |
| Sep 8, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Ocean | 43 min |
| Sep 8, 6:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington | 117 min |
| Sep 8, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 64 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.