Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2008, 8:05 PM EDT for Morris County, Sussex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 55 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 10, 2008, 8:05 PM EDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2008, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Morris County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:07 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 447 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1846 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 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 110006
SVRPHI
NJC027-037-110100-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0060.080611T0005Z-080611T0100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
805 PM EDT TUE JUN 10 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MORRIS COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY...
EASTERN SUSSEX COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY...
* UNTIL 900 PM EDT
* AT 802 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS TO 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
STANHOPE...OR ABOUT 27 MILES WEST OF PATERSON...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
GREEN POND...LAKE TELEMARK AND 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOONTON BY 815
PM...
KINNELON BY 820 PM...
8 MILES NORTHWEST OF PEQUANNOCK TOWNSHIP AND 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
HIGHLAND LAKE BY 825 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.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM WEDNESDAY
MORNING FOR DELAWARE AND NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND AND NEW JERSEY AND
EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.
LAT...LON 4134 7468 4120 7437 4108 7449 4104 7449
4105 7444 4101 7439 4100 7430 4096 7427
4092 7428 4089 7426 4089 7433 4085 7431
4077 7437 4075 7483 4093 7476 4108 7454
4123 7459
TIME...MOT...LOC 0005Z 241DEG 45KT 4096 7464
$$
GORSEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 8:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Morris, Somerset | 64 min |
| Jun 10, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 41 min |
| Jun 11, 12:33 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 42 min | |
| Jun 11, 1:59 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 46 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.