Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1998, 1:37 AM EDT for Middlesex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 63 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 1, 1998, 1:37 AM EDT (05:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1998, 2:40 AM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
County Middlesex County, NJ
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 10:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -348 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1224 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
352 WUUS1 KPHL 010538 RRA SVRPHL NJC023-025-029-010640- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 137 AM EDT MON JUN 1 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MIDDLESEX COUNTY IN NEW JERSEY MONMOUTH COUNTY IN NEW JERSEY OCEAN COUNTY IN NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 240 AM EDT * AT 135 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR EDISON IN MIDDLESEX COUNTY SOUTHWEST TO SALEM COUNTY NEW JERSEY. THE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH AND HAVE PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. 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. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. KRAUS/DELISI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 8:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Sussex | 33 min |
| May 31, 10:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 19 min |
| May 31, 11:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Warren | 34 min |
| May 31, 11:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris | 31 min |
| Jun 1, 1:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex | 50 min |
| Jun 1, 1:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Gloucester, Salem | 35 min |
| Jun 1, 1:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Camden | 35 min |
| Jun 1, 1:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cumberland | 49 min |
| Jun 1, 1:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington | 65 min |
| Jun 1, 1:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth, Ocean | 63 min |
| Jun 1, 1:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May | 48 min |
| Jun 1, 1:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer | 36 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.