Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

October 8, 1998Monmouth County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 8, 1998, 6:08 PM EDT for Monmouth 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
Oct 8, 1998, 6:08 PM EDT (22:08 UTC)
Expired
Oct 8, 1998, 7:10 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

County Monmouth County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 127 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 12:00Z on 1998-10-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1998-10-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 197 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
945 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
197 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
256 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

821 
WUUS1 KPHL 082209 RRA
SVRPHL
NJC025-082310-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
608 PM EDT THU OCT 8 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 710 PM EDT

* AT 606 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE VICINITY OF MARLBORO... MOVING EAST
  AT 35 MPH. DAMAGING WIND AND HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE FROM THIS
  STORM.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MAY PASS NEAR EATONTOWN...TINTON FALLS...
  RED BANK...ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS AND LONG BRANCH.

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

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR CAR WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER
MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK. IF CAUGHT IN RISING FLOOD WATERS...
ABANDON YOUR CAR QUICKLY AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

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

KRAUS

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.