Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 262, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 2008, 12:44 PM EDT for Atlantic County, Cape May County, Cumberland County, New Jersey. It was in force for 46 min. 4 reports 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
- Sep 9, 2008, 12:44 PM EDT (16:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 2008, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Atlantic County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 12:44 PM EDT | HAIL 0.88 | Vineland, NJ | |
| Sep 9, 12:50 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Millville, NJ | |
| Sep 9, 1:00 PM EDT | HAIL 0.5 | 4 Wnw Belleplain, NJ | HALF-INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED IN MORRIS RIVER TOWNSHIP. |
| Sep 9, 1:05 PM EDT | HAIL 0.25 | Vineland, NJ | PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN EAST VINELAND. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 4.7 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
- 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 091644 SVRPHI NJC001-009-011-091730- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0262.080909T1644Z-080909T1730Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1244 PM EDT TUE SEP 9 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN ATLANTIC COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY... NORTH CENTRAL CAPE MAY COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY... EASTERN CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY... * UNTIL 130 PM EDT * AT 1242 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 MILLVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 21 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CUMBERLAND BY 1255 PM... 9 MILES SOUTH OF MIZPAH BY 105 PM... 6 MILES NORTH OF BELLEPLAIN BY 110 PM... ESTELL MANOR BY 120 PM... 8 MILES SOUTH OF MAYS LANDING BY 125 PM... CORBIN CITY AND ENGLISH CREEK BY 130 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 3924 7481 3927 7518 3956 7492 TIME...MOT...LOC 1644Z 284DEG 18KT 3939 7501 $$ MPD
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS51 KPHI 091658 SVSPHI SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1258 PM EDT TUE SEP 9 2008 NJC001-009-011-091730- /O.CON.KPHI.SV.W.0262.000000T0000Z-080909T1730Z/ CUMBERLAND NJ-CAPE MAY NJ-ATLANTIC NJ- 1258 PM EDT TUE SEP 9 2008 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 130 PM EDT FOR SOUTHERN ATLANTIC...NORTH CENTRAL CAPE MAY AND EASTERN CUMBERLAND COUNTIES... AT 1256 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CUMBERLAND...OR 7 MILES EAST OF MILLVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BELLEPLAIN BY 110 PM EDT... ESTELL MANOR BY 115 PM EDT... 9 MILES SOUTH OF MAYS LANDING BY 120 PM EDT... ENGLISH CREEK BY 130 PM EDT... IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM EDT TUESDAY AFTERNOON FOR DELAWARE AND NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND AND NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. LAT...LON 3949 7442 3924 7481 3927 7518 3956 7492 TIME...MOT...LOC 1658Z 282DEG 21KT 3935 7492 $$ 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, 12:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Ocean | 49 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.