Alert archive / New Jersey / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this tornado warning at Aug 10, 2008, 12:09 PM EDT for Gloucester County, Salem County, New Jersey; New Castle County, Delaware; Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 36 min. 3 reports 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
- Aug 10, 2008, 12:09 PM EDT (16:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2008, 12:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties New Castle County, DE, Gloucester County, NJ, Salem County, NJ, Delaware County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 12:34 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Marcus Hook, PA | |
| Aug 10, 12:35 PM EDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | Penns Grove, NJ | |
| Aug 10, 12:35 PM EDT | HAIL 1.25 | Penns Grove, NJ |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 10:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 771 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 923 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KPHI 101609 TORPHI DEC003-NJC015-033-PAC045-101645- /O.NEW.KPHI.TO.W.0006.080810T1609Z-080810T1645Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1209 PM EDT SUN AUG 10 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN NEW CASTLE COUNTY IN NORTHERN DELAWARE... EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL DELAWARE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA... NORTHWESTERN GLOUCESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY... NORTH CENTRAL SALEM COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY... * UNTIL 1245 PM EDT * AT 1208 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CARNEYS POINT...OR NEAR WILMINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CARNEYS POINT BY 1215 PM... BECKETT BY 1245 PM... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM SUNDAY EVENING FOR DELAWARE AND NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND AND NEW JERSEY AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. LAT...LON 3984 7541 3978 7531 3969 7545 3973 7554 TIME...MOT...LOC 1609Z 225DEG 4KT 3971 7548 $$ RNS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 9:48 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 57 min | |
| Aug 10, 9:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May | 46 min |
| Aug 10, 10:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Salem | 64 min |
| Aug 10, 10:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Gloucester | 66 min |
| Aug 10, 11:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester | 58 min |
| Aug 10, 11:32 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Camden, Gloucester | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 11:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Gloucester, Salem | 59 min |
| Aug 10, 11:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester | 65 min |
| Aug 10, 11:56 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Camden, Gloucester | 4 hr |
| Aug 10, 12:05 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 55 min | |
| Aug 10, 12:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Camden, Gloucester, Salem | 95 min |
| Aug 10, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May | 60 min |
| Aug 10, 12:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Ocean | 84 min |
| Aug 10, 12:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Gloucester, Salem | 34 min |
| Aug 10, 1:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Warren | 115 min |
| Aug 10, 1:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Gloucester, Salem | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 1:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Camden, Gloucester, Salem | 28 min |
| Aug 10, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem | 67 min |
| Aug 10, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Ocean | 50 min |
| Aug 10, 2:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 67 min | |
| Aug 10, 2:36 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 54 min | |
| Aug 10, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 55 min |
| Aug 10, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Camden, Gloucester, Salem | 39 min |
| Aug 10, 3:44 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 61 min | |
| Aug 10, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Ocean | 24 min |
| Aug 10, 4:10 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Ocean, Salem | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Camden, Gloucester, Salem | 69 min |
| Aug 10, 6:45 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Camden, Gloucester, Salem | 2 hr |
| Aug 10, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May | 56 min |
| Aug 10, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cumberland, Salem | 66 min |
| Aug 10, 7:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 60 min | |
| Aug 10, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cumberland | 56 min |
| Aug 10, 7:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 60 min | |
| Aug 10, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester | 67 min |
| Aug 10, 10:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | New Castle | 54 min |
| Aug 10, 12:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 57 min |
| Aug 10, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | New Castle | 75 min |
| Aug 10, 5:59 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | New Castle | 2 hr |
| Aug 10, 10:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 57 min |
| Aug 10, 10:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Delaware | 61 min |
| Aug 10, 11:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 66 min |
| Aug 10, 12:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Chester, Delaware, Montgomery | 4 hr |
| Aug 10, 12:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Bucks, Lehigh, Montgomery | 84 min |
| Aug 10, 1:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Chester, Montgomery | 65 min |
| Aug 10, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester, Montgomery | 58 min |
| Aug 10, 3:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Chester | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks | 40 min |
| Aug 10, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 75 min |
| Aug 10, 5:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Berks, Montgomery | 110 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.