Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2008, 6:46 PM EDT for Cape May County, New Jersey. It was in force for 24 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
- Jul 8, 2008, 6:46 PM EDT (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2008, 7:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Cape May County, NJ
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 289 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 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 082246
SVRPHI
NJC009-082330-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0129.080708T2246Z-080708T2330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
646 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CAPE MAY COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...
* UNTIL 730 PM EDT
* AT 641 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CAPE
MAY...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
CAPE MAY BY 700 PM...
WILDWOOD CREST BY 705 PM...
NORTH WILDWOOD AND WILDWOOD BY 710 PM...
STONE HARBOR BY 715 PM...
AVALON BY 720 PM...
THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY
RESULT IN LOCALIZED AREAS OF FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE IN AREAS WHERE
WATER IS CROSSING THE ROAD.
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
LAT...LON 3893 7498 3899 7498 3929 7479 3922 7462
3920 7464 3918 7465 3913 7470 3907 7471
3902 7478 3900 7478 3893 7488 3892 7497
TIME...MOT...LOC 2246Z 223DEG 36KT 3878 7497
$$
PO1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS51 KPHI 082310
SVSPHI
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
710 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 2008
NJC009-082320-
/O.CAN.KPHI.SV.W.0129.000000T0000Z-080708T2330Z/
CAPE MAY NJ-
710 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 2008
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CAPE MAY COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING TO BE ISSUED HAS WEAKENED.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 3893 7498 3899 7498 3929 7479 3922 7462
3920 7464 3918 7465 3913 7470 3907 7471
3902 7478 3900 7478 3893 7488 3892 7497
TIME...MOT...LOC 2310Z 180DEG 0KT 3874 7501
$$
POThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 1:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Sussex | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 114 min | |
| Jul 8, 6:14 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 91 min | |
| Jul 8, 6:26 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 94 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.