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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 164, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 27, 2008Monmouth County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2008, 11:41 AM EDT for Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was in force for 34 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 27, 2008, 11:41 AM EDT (15:41 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2008, 12:15 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Monmouth County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 27, 11:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 112 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 88 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -167 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1310 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 271541
SVRPHI
NJC025-271615-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0164.080727T1541Z-080727T1615Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1141 AM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1215 PM EDT

* AT 1139 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LINCROFT...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  SANDY HOOK...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 24 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SANDY HOOK AND HIGHLANDS BY NOON...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM SUNDAY
EVENING FOR DELAWARE AND NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND AND NEW JERSEY AND
EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.

LAT...LON 4032 7396 4025 7417 4038 7425 4046 7412
      4044 7409 4041 7400 4046 7402 4048 7401
      4048 7400 4045 7397 4043 7396
TIME...MOT...LOC 1541Z 240DEG 21KT 4037 7412

$$

MPD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 11:29 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington	46 min
Jul 27, 11:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex, Warren	70 min
Jul 27, 12:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Cape May	54 min
Jul 27, 12:12 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		63 min
Jul 27, 12:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Ocean	49 min
Jul 27, 12:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		61 min
Jul 27, 1:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monmouth	57 min
Jul 27, 1:19 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		56 min
Jul 27, 1:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer	61 min
Jul 27, 1:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monmouth	62 min
Jul 27, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Salem	60 min
Jul 27, 2:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Monmouth	3 hr
Jul 27, 2:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset	64 min
Jul 27, 2:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Mercer, Monmouth, Ocean	61 min
Jul 27, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem	58 min
Jul 27, 2:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Middlesex, Morris, Somerset	57 min
Jul 27, 2:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer	2 hr
Jul 27, 2:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cumberland, Salem	59 min
Jul 27, 2:38 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		67 min
Jul 27, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean	67 min
Jul 27, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		2 hr
Jul 27, 2:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Middlesex, Morris, Somerset	115 min
Jul 27, 2:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth, Ocean	53 min
Jul 27, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		119 min
Jul 27, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 2 more	63 min
Jul 27, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Ocean	34 min
Jul 27, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		56 min
Jul 27, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		115 min
Jul 27, 4:09 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		2 hr
Jul 27, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Cape May	60 min
Jul 27, 4:39 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		51 min
Jul 27, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		61 min
Jul 27, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		90 min
Jul 27, 5:47 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		88 min

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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.