Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2008, 4:36 PM EDT for Sussex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 44 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
- Jun 8, 2008, 4:36 PM EDT (20:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2008, 5:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Sussex County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 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 082037
SVRPHI
NJC037-082130-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0046.080608T2036Z-080608T2130Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
436 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN SUSSEX COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY...
* UNTIL 530 PM EDT
* AT 433 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 10
MILES NORTH OF HAINESVILLE...OR ABOUT 43 MILES EAST OF SCRANTON...
AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 39 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
HIGH POINT BY 450 PM...
SUSSEX BY 500 PM...
VERNON VALLEY AND 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAMBURG BY 505 PM...
HIGHLAND LAKE BY 510 PM...
LAT...LON 4122 7441 4119 7437 4110 7447 4107 7452
4127 7484 4134 7475 4134 7473 4135 7470
4135 7469
TIME...MOT...LOC 2036Z 301DEG 34KT 4138 7480
$$
KRUZDLO1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS51 KPHI 082120
SVSPHI
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
517 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2008
NJC037-082127-
/O.CAN.KPHI.SV.W.0046.000000T0000Z-080608T2130Z/
SUSSEX NJ-
517 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2008
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN SUSSEX COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OUT OF THE WARNED AREA, THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 4122 7441 4119 7437 4110 7447 4107 7452
4127 7484 4134 7475 4134 7473 4135 7470
4135 7469
TIME...MOT...LOC 2117Z 301DEG 34KT 4118 7436
$$
KRUZDLOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 64 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.