Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2008, 2:36 PM EDT for Atlantic County, Cape May County, Cumberland County, New Jersey. It was in force for 54 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 15, 2008, 2:36 PM EDT (18:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2008, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 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 Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 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 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 756 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 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 151836
SVRPHI
NJC001-009-011-151930-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0077.080615T1836Z-080615T1930Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
236 PM EDT SUN JUN 15 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL ATLANTIC COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...
CAPE MAY COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...
SOUTHEASTERN CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...
* UNTIL 330 PM EDT
* AT 231 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
ELDORA...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF VINELAND...AND MOVING EAST AT
23 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
WOODBINE...DENNISVILLE AND GOSHEN BY 250 PM...
SEA ISLE CITY...SEAVILLE AND 6 MILES NORTH OF AVALON BY 305 PM...
IF YOU SEE THREATENING WEATHER, HEAD INDOORS IMMEDIATELY.
LAT...LON 3930 7451 3930 7455 3928 7454 3920 7464
3907 7472 3895 7485 3892 7490 3892 7497
3899 7498 3909 7491 3915 7490 3918 7495
3918 7501 3920 7501 3935 7485 3933 7448
TIME...MOT...LOC 1836Z 291DEG 20KT 3924 7490
$$
TFG1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS51 KPHI 151853
SVSPHI
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
253 PM EDT SUN JUN 15 2008
NJC011-151903-
/O.CAN.KPHI.SV.W.0077.000000T0000Z-080615T1930Z/
CUMBERLAND NJ-
253 PM EDT SUN JUN 15 2008
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN CUMBERLAND COUNTY
IS CANCELLED...
THE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED EAST OF THE COUNTY.
LAT...LON 3930 7451 3930 7455 3928 7455 3926 7459
3922 7461 3920 7464 3907 7472 3901 7480
3902 7482 3917 7486 3919 7488 3929 7483
3933 7448
TIME...MOT...LOC 1853Z 287DEG 19KT 3923 7480
$$
NJC001-009-151930-
/O.CON.KPHI.SV.W.0077.000000T0000Z-080615T1930Z/
CAPE MAY NJ-ATLANTIC NJ-
253 PM EDT SUN JUN 15 2008
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM EDT
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ATLANTIC AND CAPE MAY COUNTIES...
AT 251 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE
HAIL...AND WINDS UP TO 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
WOODBINE...OR 19 MILES SOUTHEAST OF VINELAND...MOVING EAST AT 22 MPH.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
6 MILES SOUTH OF CORBIN CITY BY 300 PM EDT...
SEAVILLE...SEA ISLE CITY AND 8 MILES NORTH OF AVALON BY 310 PM
EDT...
MARMORA BY 315 PM EDT...
OCEAN CITY BY 320 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.
LAT...LON 3930 7451 3930 7455 3928 7455 3926 7459
3922 7461 3920 7464 3907 7472 3901 7480
3902 7482 3917 7486 3919 7488 3929 7483
3933 7448
TIME...MOT...LOC 1853Z 287DEG 19KT 3923 7480
$$
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, 9:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May | 64 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, 2:38 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.