Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 2008, 6:03 PM EST for 4 counties in New Jersey. It was in force for 57 min. 4 reports 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
- Mar 8, 2008, 6:03 PM EST (23:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2008, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Middlesex County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 6:30 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Flemington, NJ | WIDESPREAD TREES AND WIRES DOWN. SOME ROOF DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS. |
| Mar 8, 6:30 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Pennington, NJ | TREES DOWN IN HAMILTON SQUARE AND HOPEWELL TWP. |
| Mar 8, 6:30 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Princeton, NJ | TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN. |
| Mar 8, 6:45 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Se Rossmoor, NJ | TREES DOWN IN MONROE TWP. |
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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 444 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 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 082304
SVRPHI
NJC019-021-023-035-090000-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0014.080308T2303Z-080309T0000Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
603 PM EST SAT MAR 8 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MERCER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF TRENTON...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...PERTH AMBOY...NEW BRUNSWICK...
SOMERSET COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY...
HUNTERDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY...
* UNTIL 700 PM EST
* AT 559 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE
HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THESE STORMS
WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES WEST OF MILFORD
TO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRENTON...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6
MILES EAST OF BETHLEHEM TO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRENTON...AND
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
SAND BROOK...WHITE HORSE...TRENTON AND PENNINGTON BY 610 PM EST...
WINDSOR...EDINBURG...SKILLMAN AND CLOVERHILL BY 620 PM EST...
SOUTH BRUNSWICK AND FLAGTOWN BY 640 PM EST...
LAT...LON 4049 7426 4046 7424 4014 7463 4017 7468
4015 7472 4031 7492 4040 7497 4042 7506
4053 7507 4056 7510 4057 7520 4078 7489
4071 7474 4075 7456 4070 7451 4064 7452
4066 7441 4064 7440 4059 7444 4059 7420
TIME...MOT...LOC 2303Z 222DEG 64KT 4067 7520 4012 7481
$$
SZATKOWSKIThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 4:40 AM EST | Wind Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 10 more | 27 hr |
| Mar 8, 10:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 37 min |
| Mar 8, 12:03 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer, Salem | 4 hr |
| Mar 8, 12:36 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 1:35 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PHI | Somerset | 31 hr |
| Mar 8, 1:35 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PHI | Essex, Morris, Passaic | 4 days |
| Mar 8, 1:35 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PHI | Essex, Passaic | 4 days |
| Mar 8, 1:35 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PHI | Passaic | 44 hr |
| Mar 8, 1:35 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PHI | Morris, Passaic | 44 hr |
| Mar 8, 1:35 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PHI | Bergen, Morris, Passaic | 21 hr |
| Mar 8, 1:35 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PHI | Middlesex, Somerset | 25 hr |
| Mar 8, 1:35 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PHI | Morris | 65 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:58 PM EST | High Wind Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 4:09 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PHI | Morris, Somerset | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 4:09 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PHI | Morris, Somerset | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 4:09 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PHI | Morris, Passaic | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 4:09 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PHI | Morris | 25 hr |
| Mar 8, 4:28 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Somerset | 17 hr |
| Mar 8, 5:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester | 46 min |
| Mar 8, 5:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Warren | 41 min |
| Mar 8, 6:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris, Sussex | 62 min |
| Mar 8, 6:51 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PHI | Somerset | 10 hr |
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.