Alert archive / New Jersey / Frost Advisories in 2008
Frost Advisory 6, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this frost advisory at Oct 7, 2008, 3:55 PM EDT for 8 counties in New Jersey; Berks County, Lehigh County, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Oct 8, 2008, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 7, 2008, 3:55 PM EDT (19:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 8, 2008, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2008, 4:26 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Atlantic County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ, Hunterdon County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Berks County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Northampton County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 1460 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS71 KPHI 071955 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 355 PM EDT TUE OCT 7 2008 NJZ007-PAZ060>062-081200- /O.NEW.KPHI.FR.Y.0006.081008T0600Z-081008T1200Z/ WARREN-BERKS-LEHIGH-NORTHAMPTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WASHINGTON...READING...ALLENTOWN... BETHLEHEM...EASTON 355 PM EDT TUE OCT 7 2008 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY, WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT WEDNESDAY. CALM WINDS AND MAINLY CLEAR SKIES WILL COMBINE TO ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO DROP INTO THE LOWER TO MID 30S LATE TONIGHT. THAT SHOULD GENERATE FROST ACROSS THE LEHIGH VALLEY, BERKS COUNTY AND NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY. A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. PEOPLE SHOULD TAKE THE APPROPRIATE ACTIONS OR PRECAUTIONS. $$ NJZ008>010-PAZ067>069-081200- /O.NEW.KPHI.FR.Y.0006.081008T0600Z-081008T1200Z/ MORRIS-HUNTERDON-SOMERSET-CHESTER-MONTGOMERY-BUCKS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MORRISTOWN...FLEMINGTON...SOMERVILLE... WEST CHESTER...NORRISTOWN...DOYLESTOWN 355 PM EDT TUE OCT 7 2008 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT WEDNESDAY. CALM WINDS AND MAINLY CLEAR SKIES WILL COMBINE TO ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO DROP INTO THE LOWER TO MID 30S LATE TONIGHT OVER NORTH CENTRAL NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA, ESPECIALLY OVER LOCATIONS WELL REMOVED FROM THE URBANIZED AREAS NEAR THE INTERSTATE 95 CORRIDOR. THAT SHOULD GENERATE AREAS OF FROST. A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. PEOPLE SHOULD TAKE THE APPROPRIATE ACTIONS OR PRECAUTIONS. $$ NJZ020>022-027-081200- /O.NEW.KPHI.FR.Y.0006.081008T0600Z-081008T1200Z/ OCEAN-CUMBERLAND-ATLANTIC-SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JACKSON...MILLVILLE...HAMMONTON... WHARTON STATE FOREST 355 PM EDT TUE OCT 7 2008 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT WEDNESDAY. CALM WINDS AND CLEAR SKIES WILL COMBINE TO ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO DROP INTO THE LOWER TO MID 30S LATE TONIGHT OVER SOUTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY, ESPECIALLY IN AND AROUND THE PINE BARRENS. THAT SHOULD GENERATE AREAS OF FROST. A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. PEOPLE SHOULD TAKE THE APPROPRIATE ACTIONS OR PRECAUTIONS. $$ MPD
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS71 KPHI 080826 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 426 AM EDT WED OCT 8 2008 NJZ007>010-020>022-027-PAZ060>062-067>069-080930- /O.CAN.KPHI.FR.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-081008T1200Z/ WARREN-MORRIS-HUNTERDON-SOMERSET-OCEAN-CUMBERLAND-ATLANTIC- SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON-BERKS-LEHIGH-NORTHAMPTON-CHESTER- MONTGOMERY-BUCKS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WASHINGTON...MORRISTOWN...FLEMINGTON... SOMERVILLE...JACKSON...MILLVILLE...HAMMONTON... WHARTON STATE FOREST...READING...ALLENTOWN...BETHLEHEM...EASTON... WEST CHESTER...NORRISTOWN...DOYLESTOWN 426 AM EDT WED OCT 8 2008 ...FROST ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS CANCELLED THE FROST ADVISORY. THE ARRIVAL OF HIGH CLOUDINESS HAS KEPT TEMPERATURES HIGHER THAN EARLIER ANTICIPATED ACROSS MANY AREAS, THEREFORE A WIDESPREAD FROST IS NO LONGER EXPECTED EARLY THIS MORNING. AS A RESULT, THE FROST ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ GORSE
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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.