Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2008, 6:04 PM EDT for Burlington County, Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 56 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 2008, 6:04 PM EDT (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2008, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Burlington County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 6:05 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Barnegat, NJ | TREES AND WIRES REPORTED DOWN IN BARNEGAT AND STAFFORD TOWNSHIPS. ALSO, SOME TREES REPORTED DOWN ON CARS AND HOMES. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 12:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1755 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS51 KPHI 272206
SVRPHI
NJC005-029-272300-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0109.080627T2204Z-080627T2300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
604 PM EDT FRI JUN 27 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...
SOUTHERN OCEAN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...
* UNTIL 700 PM EDT
* AT 557 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
WARREN GROVE...AND MOVING EAST AT 21 MPH. ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT
STORM WAS NEAR BARNEGAT AND WAS MOVING AT THE SAME SPEED AND
DIRECTION.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
BEACH HAVEN WEST BY 615 PM...
BARNEGAT BY 620 PM...
SURF CITY BY 625 PM...
HARVEY CEDARS AND FORKED RIVER BY 630 PM...
BARNEGAT LIGHT BY 635 PM...
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM FRIDAY
EVENING FOR DELAWARE AND NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND AND SOUTHERN NEW
JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.
LAT...LON 3981 7407 3974 7409 3963 7416 3963 7419
3964 7420 3962 7423 3964 7424 3962 7425
3960 7443 3979 7446 3994 7406
TIME...MOT...LOC 2204Z 259DEG 18KT 3972 7431
$$
KRUZDLOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 2:19 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 56 min | |
| Jun 27, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 3:28 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 32 min | |
| Jun 27, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem | 76 min |
| Jun 27, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington | 58 min |
| Jun 27, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Monmouth, Ocean | 69 min |
| Jun 27, 6:36 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 54 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.