Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 195, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2008, 8:08 AM EDT for Atlantic County, New Jersey. It was in force for 52 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
- Aug 2, 2008, 8:08 AM EDT (12:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2008, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Atlantic County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:12 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 nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 1936 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1225 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS51 KPHI 021208
SVRPHI
NJC001-021300-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0195.080802T1208Z-080802T1300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
808 AM EDT SAT AUG 2 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN ATLANTIC COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...
* UNTIL 900 AM EDT
* AT 803 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CORBIN CITY...OR ABOUT 17
MILES SOUTHWEST OF ATLANTIC CITY...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
SOMERS POINT AND ENGLISH CREEK BY 815 AM...
LONGPORT BY 820 AM...
VENTNOR CITY BY 825 AM...
ATLANTIC CITY AND ABSECON BY 830 AM...
BRIGANTINE BY 835 AM...
NUMEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES AND SMALL HAIL ARE ALSO
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 3939 7436 3929 7453 3930 7456 3930 7464
3928 7467 3928 7473 3929 7475 3934 7482
3953 7442 3949 7439 3948 7435 3947 7435
3945 7431
TIME...MOT...LOC 1207Z 233DEG 33KT 3926 7468
$$
JJMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 6:55 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 65 min | |
| Aug 2, 7:20 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 115 min | |
| Aug 2, 7:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May | 65 min |
| Aug 2, 8:31 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 119 min | |
| Aug 2, 9:22 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 24 min | |
| Aug 2, 10:51 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 11:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Somerset | 59 min |
| Aug 2, 12:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset | 54 min |
| Aug 2, 12:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Middlesex, Monmouth | 66 min |
| Aug 2, 1:22 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 53 min | |
| Aug 2, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 55 min |
| Aug 2, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Ocean | 65 min |
| Aug 2, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Warren | 55 min |
| Aug 2, 5:58 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 62 min | |
| Aug 2, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 56 min |
| Aug 2, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Warren | 26 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.