Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2008, 2:50 PM EDT for Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was in force for 25 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, 2:50 PM EDT (18:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2008, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Monmouth County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:51 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 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 151850
SVRPHI
NJC025-151915-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0078.080615T1850Z-080615T1915Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
250 PM EDT SUN JUN 15 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN MONMOUTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY...
* UNTIL 315 PM EDT
* AT 246 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS TO 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
COLLINGWOOD PARK...OR ABOUT 22 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PERTH
AMBOY...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 14 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LONG BRANCH BY 255 PM...
ELBERON BY 300 PM...
ASBURY PARK BY 305 PM...
BELMAR BY 310 PM...
MANASQUAN BY 315 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.
LAT...LON 4016 7401 4010 7402 4009 7404 4010 7405
4009 7407 4013 7411 4012 7414 4017 7422
4038 7403 4034 7399 4034 7396 4032 7396
TIME...MOT...LOC 1850Z 304DEG 12KT 4023 7408
$$
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, 2:36 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, 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.