Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 255, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2008, 5:23 PM EDT for Sussex 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
- Sep 3, 2008, 5:23 PM EDT (21:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2008, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Sussex County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 982 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 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 032123
SVRPHI
NJC037-032215-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0255.080903T2123Z-080903T2215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
523 PM EDT WED SEP 3 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL SUSSEX COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY...
* UNTIL 615 PM EDT
* AT 519 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 NEAR
VERNON VALLEY...OR ABOUT 19 MILES EAST OF MONTAGUE...AND MOVING
SOUTH AT 14 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
VERNON VALLEY BY 530 PM...
HIGHLAND LAKE BY 550 PM...
7 MILES EAST OF HAMBURG BY 600 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.
LAT...LON 4128 7453 4122 7443 4122 7441 4120 7437
4113 7443 4108 7450 4107 7457 4129 7460
4129 7454
TIME...MOT...LOC 2123Z 004DEG 12KT 4126 7442
$$
EBERWINE1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS51 KPHI 032202
SVSPHI
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
602 PM EDT WED SEP 3 2008
NJC037-032215-
/O.CON.KPHI.SV.W.0255.000000T0000Z-080903T2215Z/
SUSSEX NJ-
601 PM EDT WED SEP 3 2008
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM EDT
FOR EAST CENTRAL SUSSEX COUNTY...
AT 556 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HIGHLAND
LAKE...OR 18 MILES EAST OF NEWTON...MOVING SOUTH AT 14 MPH.
LAT...LON 4122 7441 4121 7438 4119 7438 4113 7443
4108 7451 4115 7451 4115 7450 4120 7449
4122 7443
TIME...MOT...LOC 2201Z 004DEG 12KT 4113 7443
$$
EBERWINEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 5:39 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May, Monmouth, Ocean | 14 hr |
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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.