Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2008, 2:14 PM EDT for Bucks County, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; 5 counties in New Jersey. It was in force for 61 min. 6 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
- Jul 27, 2008, 2:14 PM EDT (18:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2008, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ, Bucks County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 2:28 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Collingswood, NJ | TREE REPORTED DOWN ON A HOUSE IN COLLINGSWOOD. |
| Jul 27, 2:30 PM EDT | HAIL 0.88 | Collingswood, NJ | NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN COLLINGSWOOD. |
| Jul 27, 2:30 PM EDT | HAIL 1.75 | Brooklawn, NJ | HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS REPORTED IN BROOKLAWN. |
| Jul 27, 2:35 PM EDT | TSTM WND GST 57 | Cream Ridge, NJ | A THUNDERSTORM WIND GUST TO 57 MPH WAS MEASURED IN CREAM RIDGE. |
| Jul 27, 2:41 PM EDT | TSTM WND GST 45 | Wrightstown, NJ | A THUNDERSTORM WIND GUST TO 45 MPH WAS MEASURED AT MCGUIRE AIR FORCE BASE. |
| Jul 27, 2:45 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Mount Ephraim, NJ | QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN MOUNT EPHRAIM. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 271814 SVRPHI NJC005-007-021-025-029-PAC017-101-271915- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0178.080727T1814Z-080727T1915Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 214 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL MERCER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY... SOUTHWESTERN MONMOUTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY... SOUTHEASTERN BUCKS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA... EASTERN PHILADELPHIA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA... BURLINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY... NORTHERN CAMDEN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY... NORTHWESTERN OCEAN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY... * UNTIL 315 PM EDT * AT 212 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 OVER PHILADELPHIA...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BRISTOL AND BURLINGTON BY 220 PM... FLORENCE BY 225 PM... JACKSONVILLE BY 230 PM... BORDENTOWN BY 235 PM... CROSSWICKS AND JOBSTOWN BY 240 PM... GEORGETOWN AND WRIGHTSTOWN BY 245 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 800 PM SUNDAY EVENING FOR DELAWARE AND NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND AND NEW JERSEY AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. LAT...LON 4014 7437 3962 7446 3989 7515 4021 7497 TIME...MOT...LOC 1814Z 277DEG 23KT 4012 7489 $$ IOVINO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 11:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton | 70 min |
| Jul 27, 12:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 53 min |
| Jul 27, 12:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Chester, Lehigh, Montgomery | 56 min |
| Jul 27, 12:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Berks, Bucks, Chester, Lehigh, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 12:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 67 min |
| Jul 27, 12:50 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Bucks, Chester, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 12:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 63 min |
| Jul 27, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks, Montgomery | 60 min |
| Jul 27, 1:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Chester | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 1:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks, Montgomery | 61 min |
| Jul 27, 2:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 64 min |
| Jul 27, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Delaware, Philadelphia | 58 min |
| Jul 27, 2:30 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Bucks | 2 hr |
| Jul 27, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Chester | 56 min |
| Jul 27, 6:44 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Chester | 72 min |
| Jul 27, 11:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington | 46 min |
| Jul 27, 11:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth | 34 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, 1:58 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, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Middlesex, Morris, Somerset | 57 min |
| 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 |
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.