Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 2008, 12:11 PM EDT for Atlantic County, Burlington County, Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 49 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, 12:11 PM EDT (16:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 2008, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Atlantic County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:14 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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 134 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 091611 SVRPHI NJC001-005-029-091700- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0261.080909T1611Z-080909T1700Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1211 PM EDT TUE SEP 9 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN ATLANTIC COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY... SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY... SOUTH CENTRAL OCEAN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY... * UNTIL 100 PM EDT * AT 1209 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 HAMMONTON...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF VINELAND...AND MOVING EAST AT 32 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BATSTO BY 1220 PM... EGG HARBOR CITY AND 6 MILES SOUTH OF WHARTON STATE FOREST BY 1225 PM... WADING RIVER AND 8 MILES NORTH OF PORT REPUBLIC BY 1235 PM... NEW GRETNA AND 6 MILES SOUTH OF PENN STATE FOREST BY 1240 PM... BASS RIVER STATE FOREST BY 1245 PM... WARREN GROVE BY 1250 PM... 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 3949 7442 3957 7491 3976 7471 3982 7432 TIME...MOT...LOC 1612Z 261DEG 28KT 3963 7473 $$ 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, 11:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem | 38 min |
| Sep 9, 11:50 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 55 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.