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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 26, 1998Sussex County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 1998, 12:04 AM EDT for Sussex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report 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 26, 1998, 12:04 AM EDT (04:04 UTC)
Expired
Aug 26, 1998, 12:35 AM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

County Sussex County, NJ

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 26, 12:06 AM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50Countywide, 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 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 156 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 1998-08-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 358 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 1998-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 163 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
358 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1295 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
280 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPHL 260404 RRA
SVRPHL
NJC037-260435-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1204 AM EDT WED AUG 26 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SUSSEX COUNTY IN NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 1235 AM EDT

* AT 1159 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED 11 MILES
  WEST SOUTHWEST OF BRANCHVILLE... BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
  DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING EAST NORTHEAST 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BRANCHVILLE AT 1215 AM EDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND DO
NOT STAND NEAR WINDOWS. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR
ROOM fON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.

FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS...OR YOUR CABLE
TELEVISION OUTLET.

DI/WWR

The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 11:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIWarren34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.