Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2008, 3:31 PM EDT for Middlesex County, Somerset County, New Jersey. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 2008, 3:31 PM EDT (19:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2008, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Middlesex County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -298 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1853 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS51 KPHI 291931
SVRPHI
NJC023-035-292015-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0113.080629T1931Z-080629T2015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
331 PM EDT SUN JUN 29 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY...
EAST CENTRAL SOMERSET COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY...
* UNTIL 415 PM EDT
* AT 329 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
NEW BRUNSWICK...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 29 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
EDISON AND SAYREVILLE BY 340 PM...
PERTH AMBOY BY 345 PM...
COLONIA BY 350 PM...
CARTERET BY 355 PM...
LAT...LON 4054 7424 4053 7423 4048 7426 4038 7443
4048 7457 4059 7443 4060 7430 4059 7428
4060 7422 4059 7420 4057 7420
TIME...MOT...LOC 1931Z 223DEG 25KT 4048 7442
$$
SZATKOWSKIThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Middlesex, Monmouth | 29 min |
| Jun 29, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth | 46 min |
| Jun 29, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 4:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Middlesex | 118 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.