Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2008, 12:54 PM EDT for Middlesex County, Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was in force for 66 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 2, 2008, 12:54 PM EDT (16:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2008, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Middlesex County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 1:15 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Marlboro, NJ | TREES DOWN IN MARLBORO, HOLMDEL, AND MIDDLETOWN. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 10:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1436 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 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 021654
SVRPHI
NJC023-025-021800-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0199.080802T1654Z-080802T1800Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1254 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN MONMOUTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY...
CENTRAL MIDDLESEX COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY...
* UNTIL 200 PM EDT
* AT 1251 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
OLD BRIDGE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEW BRUNSWICK...AND
MOVING EAST AT 33 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
MORGANVILLE...MATAWAN AND MARLBORO BY 100 PM...
HOLMDEL BY 105 PM...
LINCROFT AND KEANSBURG BY 110 PM...
MIDDLETOWN AND LINCROFT BY 115 PM...
RED BANK BY 120 PM...
HIGHLANDS BY 125 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 600 PM SATURDAY
EVENING FOR DELAWARE AND NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND AND NEW JERSEY AND
SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.
LAT...LON 4034 7396 4024 7398 4031 7451 4047 7440
4050 7426 4047 7426 4044 7420 4046 7413
4044 7409 4042 7399 4046 7402 4048 7401
4048 7400 4043 7396 4034 7395
TIME...MOT...LOC 1654Z 269DEG 28KT 4038 7432
$$
MPD2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS51 KPHI 021717
SVSPHI
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
117 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2008
NJC023-021727-
/O.CAN.KPHI.SV.W.0199.000000T0000Z-080802T1800Z/
MIDDLESEX NJ-
117 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2008
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL MIDDLESEX COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EDT
SATURDAY EVENING FOR DELAWARE AND NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND AND NEW
JERSEY AND SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.
LAT...LON 4034 7396 4024 7398 4029 7436 4036 7426
4043 7419 4046 7413 4044 7409 4041 7400
4046 7402 4048 7401 4048 7400 4043 7396
4034 7395
TIME...MOT...LOC 1717Z 269DEG 28KT 4038 7408
$$
NJC025-021800-
/O.CON.KPHI.SV.W.0199.000000T0000Z-080802T1800Z/
MONMOUTH NJ-
117 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2008
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM EDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN MONMOUTH COUNTY...
AT 115 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR MIDDLETOWN...OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SANDY HOOK...MOVING
EAST AT 32 MPH.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
8 MILES NORTH OF OAKHURST BY 120 PM EDT...
HIGHLANDS...RUMSON...SEA BRIGHT AND MONMOUTH BEACH BY 125 PM EDT...
SEA BRIGHT BY 130 PM EDT...
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 600 PM EDT
SATURDAY EVENING FOR DELAWARE AND NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND AND NEW
JERSEY AND SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.
LAT...LON 4034 7396 4024 7398 4029 7436 4036 7426
4043 7419 4046 7413 4044 7409 4041 7400
4046 7402 4048 7401 4048 7400 4043 7396
4034 7395
TIME...MOT...LOC 1717Z 269DEG 28KT 4038 7408
$$
MPD000
WWUS51 KPHI 021757
SVSPHI
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
157 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2008
NJC025-021806-
/O.EXP.KPHI.SV.W.0199.000000T0000Z-080802T1800Z/
MONMOUTH NJ-
156 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2008
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN MONMOUTH COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 200 PM EDT...
THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED. THE WARNING WILL BE
ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
LAT...LON 4034 7396 4024 7398 4029 7436 4036 7426
4043 7419 4046 7413 4044 7409 4041 7400
4046 7402 4048 7401 4048 7400 4043 7396
4034 7395
TIME...MOT...LOC 1756Z 270DEG 29KT 4029 7390
$$
MPDThe 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, 8:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic | 52 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, 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
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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.