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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 29, 2008Monmouth County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2008, 3:44 PM EDT for Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was in force for 46 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 29, 2008, 3:44 PM EDT (19:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2008, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Monmouth County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 29, 3:55 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGRed Bank, NJNJ TRANSIT NORTH JERSEY COAST LINE TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED IN BOTH DIRECTED DUE TO DOWNED TREES.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 114 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 2008-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2008-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -32 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 291944
SVRPHI
NJC025-292030-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0114.080629T1944Z-080629T2030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
344 PM EDT SUN JUN 29 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 430 PM EDT

* AT 342 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
  MIDDLETOWN...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PERTH AMBOY...AND
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 22 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  KEANSBURG AND HIGHLANDS BY 355 PM...
  SANDY HOOK BY 405 PM...

LAT...LON 4023 7412 4032 7431 4046 7417 4045 7415
      4046 7413 4044 7409 4041 7402 4042 7399
      4046 7402 4048 7401 4048 7400 4045 7397
      4034 7396
TIME...MOT...LOC 1944Z 208DEG 19KT 4038 7411

$$

SZATKOWSKI

The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 1:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMiddlesex, Monmouth29 min
Jun 29, 3:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMiddlesex, Somerset44 min
Jun 29, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMercer, Middlesex, Somerset64 min
Jun 29, 4:56 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMiddlesex118 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.