Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2008, 1:48 PM EDT for Sussex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 27 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
- May 27, 2008, 1:48 PM EDT (17:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2008, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Sussex County, NJ
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 12:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 884 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 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 271749
SVRPHI
NJC037-271815-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0025.080527T1748Z-080527T1815Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
148 PM EDT TUE MAY 27 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SUSSEX COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY...
* UNTIL 215 PM EDT
* AT 140 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
SUSSEX...OR ABOUT 33 MILES NORTHWEST OF PATERSON...AND MOVING EAST
AT 25 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
VERNON VALLEY BY 155 PM...
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM TUESDAY
EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN NEW JERSEY AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.
LAT...LON 4127 7451 4122 7441 4120 7437 4119 7437
4117 7464 4134 7467 4134 7466
TIME...MOT...LOC 1748Z 273DEG 21KT 4126 7455
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS51 KPHI 271808
SVSPHI
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
208 PM EDT TUE MAY 27 2008
NJC037-271815-
/O.CON.KPHI.SV.W.0025.000000T0000Z-080527T1815Z/
SUSSEX NJ-
208 PM EDT TUE MAY 27 2008
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 215 PM EDT
FOR FAR NORTHERN SUSSEX COUNTY...
AT 205 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR OR JUST NORTH OF VERNON VALLEY...OR 29 MILES NORTHWEST
OF PATERSON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN NEW JERSEY AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.
LAT...LON 4126 7449 4125 7448 4124 7446 4122 7442
4121 7442 4122 7453 4127 7453 4127 7451
TIME...MOT...LOC 1808Z 273DEG 21KT 4126 7440
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Middlesex | 24 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.