Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 260, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 2008, 11:07 AM EDT for 4 counties in New Jersey. It was in force for 38 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 9, 2008, 11:07 AM EDT (15:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 2008, 11:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Salem County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 9:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 1988 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 557 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 091507 SVRPHI NJC005-007-015-033-091545- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0260.080909T1507Z-080909T1545Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1107 AM EDT TUE SEP 9 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL BURLINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY... CENTRAL CAMDEN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY... NORTHERN GLOUCESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY... NORTHERN SALEM COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY... * UNTIL 1145 AM EDT * AT 1104 AM 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 BECKETT...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF WILMINGTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 44 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... GIBBSTOWN BY 1115 AM... MULLICA HILL BY 1120 AM... WOODBURY AND GLASSBORO BY 1125 AM... TURNERSVILLE BY 1130 AM... LINDENWOLD AND MAGNOLIA BY 1135 AM... BERLIN...CHESILHURST AND SPRINGDALE BY 1140 AM... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM TUESDAY AFTERNOON FOR DELAWARE AND NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND AND NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. LAT...LON 3993 7483 3970 7480 3963 7549 3982 7536 TIME...MOT...LOC 1507Z 259DEG 38KT 3974 7538 $$ MPD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 3:36 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | PHI | 36 hr | |
| Sep 9, 9:09 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 3 hr |
| Sep 9, 9:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Morris, Salem, Somerset and 2 more | 39 min |
| Sep 9, 9:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset | 3 hr |
| Sep 9, 9:59 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem | 3 hr |
| Sep 9, 10:04 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset | 3 hr |
| Sep 9, 10:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean | 48 min |
| Sep 9, 11:50 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 55 min | |
| Sep 9, 12:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Ocean | 49 min |
| Sep 9, 12:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland | 46 min |
| Sep 9, 1:05 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 55 min | |
| Sep 9, 1:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland | 53 min |
| Sep 9, 1:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 65 min | |
| Sep 9, 1:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May | 92 min |
| Sep 9, 2:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Cape May | 3 hr |
| Sep 9, 2:53 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 86 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.