Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2008, 9:56 PM EDT for Cape May County, New Jersey. It was in force for 64 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 14, 2008, 9:56 PM EDT (01:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2008, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Cape May County, NJ
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:57 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 nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 567 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 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 150156
SVRPHI
NJC009-150300-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0076.080615T0156Z-080615T0300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
956 PM EDT SAT JUN 14 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN CAPE MAY COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...
* UNTIL 1100 PM EDT
* AT 950 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 6 MILES
WEST OF NORTH CAPE MAY...OR ABOUT 29 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DOVER...AND
MOVING EAST AT 27 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
CAPE MAY BY 1005 PM...
RIO GRANDE AND 6 MILES SOUTH OF GREEN CREEK BY 1010 PM...
WILDWOOD CREST BY 1015 PM...
WILDWOOD...NORTH WILDWOOD AND 8 MILES SOUTH OF CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE
BY 1020 PM...
STONE HARBOR AND 7 MILES SOUTH OF SCOTCH BONNET BY 1025 PM...
8 MILES SOUTH OF AVALON BY 1030 PM...
THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY
RESULT IN LOCALIZED AREAS OF FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE IN AREAS WHERE
WATER IS CROSSING THE ROAD.
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.
LAT...LON 3893 7498 3899 7498 3905 7494 3911 7479
3914 7469 3910 7470 3904 7474 3902 7478
3900 7478 3896 7483 3893 7488 3892 7493
TIME...MOT...LOC 0156Z 263DEG 24KT 3895 7500
$$
TFGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 8:26 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 64 min | |
| Jun 14, 8:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Somerset | 55 min |
| Jun 14, 8:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth | 52 min |
| Jun 14, 8:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Monmouth | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 9:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Monmouth, Ocean | 57 min |
| Jun 14, 9:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 65 min | |
| Jun 14, 9:52 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 53 min | |
| Jun 14, 10:42 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 63 min | |
| Jun 15, 2:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 2 hr | |
| Jun 15, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland | 54 min |
| Jun 15, 2:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 2 hr | |
| Jun 15, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth | 25 min |
| Jun 15, 3:40 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 95 min | |
| Jun 15, 3:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 61 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.