Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 160, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2008, 8:00 PM EDT for 4 counties in New Jersey. It was in force for 45 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 23, 2008, 8:00 PM EDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2008, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Camden County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Salem County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 1356 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 729 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -104 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 240000
SVRPHI
NJC007-011-015-033-240045-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0160.080724T0000Z-080724T0045Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
800 PM EDT WED JUL 23 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL CAMDEN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...
NORTHWESTERN CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...
CENTRAL GLOUCESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...
SALEM COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...
* UNTIL 845 PM EDT
* AT 800 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
SHILOH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
ALLOWAY AND SEABROOK FARMS BY 805 PM...
ELMER AND WOODSTOWN BY 815 PM...
GLASSBORO AND MULLICA HILL BY 830 PM...
TURNERSVILLE BY 840 PM...
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.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM WEDNESDAY
EVENING FOR DELAWARE AND NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND AND NEW JERSEY AND
SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.
LAT...LON 3976 7530 3988 7494 3979 7492 3941 7531
3946 7548
TIME...MOT...LOC 0000Z 209DEG 31KT 3950 7532
$$
IOVINOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 8:24 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Camden, Gloucester | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 8:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset | 54 min |
| Jul 23, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 31 min |
| Jul 23, 8:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 11:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester | 78 min |
| Jul 24, 1:20 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 55 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.