Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 2008, 3:22 AM EST for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 2008, 3:22 AM EST (08:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2008, 4:15 AM EST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:25 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 3:30 AM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 5 N Waretown, NJ | LARGE TREE DOWN. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 3:01 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 281 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 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 050822
SVRPHI
NJC029-050915-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0008.080305T0822Z-080305T0915Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
322 AM EST WED MAR 5 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
OCEAN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...
* UNTIL 415 AM EST
* AT 321 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CEDAR GLEN LAKES...OR ABOUT
29 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TRENTON...AND MOVING NORTH AT 65 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
LAKEHURST AND 9 MILES WEST OF PLEASANT PLAINS BY 330 AM EST...
JACKSON AND 7 MILES WEST OF LAKEWOOD BY 335 AM EST...
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM EST
WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR DELAWARE AND NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND AND NEW
JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.
LAT...LON 4001 7405 4001 7407 3998 7407 3998 7410
3995 7410 3995 7408 3993 7411 3993 7409
3960 7426 3957 7426 3959 7426 3959 7431
3991 7447 4014 7428 4010 7424 4010 7416
4005 7404
TIME...MOT...LOC 0822Z 198DEG 65KT 3991 7443
$$
NIERENBERGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 1:59 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 61 min | |
| Mar 5, 2:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 40 min |
| Mar 5, 9:07 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 83 min | |
| Mar 5, 4:53 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PHI | Morris | 22 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.