Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 2015, 5:22 PM EDT for Burlington County, Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 27 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
- Aug 11, 2015, 5:22 PM EDT (21:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2015, 5:49 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Burlington County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
727
WUUS51 KPHI 112122
SVRPHI
NJC005-029-112230-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0111.150811T2122Z-150811T2230Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
522 PM EDT TUE AUG 11 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL OCEAN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...
NORTHEASTERN BURLINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...
* UNTIL 630 PM EDT
* AT 521 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS TO 60 MPH. THIS STORM
WAS LOCATED NEAR PRESIDENTIAL LAKES ESTATES...OR 17 MILES WEST OF
TOMS RIVER...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TOMS RIVER...BARNEGAT...BEACHWOOD...PRESIDENTIAL LAKES ESTATES...
SEASIDE HEIGHTS...LAKEHURST...MANTOLOKING...PLEASANT PLAINS...
BROOKVILLE...CEDAR GLEN LAKES...CEDAR GLEN WEST...BROWNS MILLS...
HOLIDAY CITY SOUTH...OLD HALFWAY...DOVER BEACHES NORTH...
PRESIDENTIAL LAKES...WOODRUFF...WHITING...HOLIDAY CITY-BERKELEY AND
PINE RIDGE AT CRESTWOOD.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY
LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY
RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER
COVERS THE ROAD.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3983 7409 4001 7409 3999 7414 3999 7411
3982 7416 3980 7410 3981 7417 3978 7410
3980 7417 3975 7420 3977 7411 3973 7416
3974 7412 3973 7415 3971 7413 3987 7461
4007 7457 4003 7405
TIME...MOT...LOC 2121Z 276DEG 23KT 3994 7451
$$1 follow-up statement
323
WWUS51 KPHI 112149
SVSPHI
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
549 PM EDT TUE AUG 11 2015
NJC005-029-112158-
/O.CAN.KPHI.SV.W.0111.000000T0000Z-150811T2230Z/
OCEAN NJ-BURLINGTON NJ-
549 PM EDT TUE AUG 11 2015
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL OCEAN AND NORTHEASTERN
BURLINGTON COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES A WIND THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
HOWEVER LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN IS STILL OCCURRING AND POOR
DRAINAGE FLOODING IS ONGOING IN BURLINGTON COUNTY.
LAT...LON 3983 7409 4001 7409 3999 7414 3999 7411
3982 7416 3980 7410 3981 7417 3978 7410
3980 7417 3975 7420 3977 7411 3973 7416
3974 7412 3973 7415 3971 7413 3987 7461
4007 7457 4003 7405
TIME...MOT...LOC 2145Z 276DEG 23KT 3992 7428
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 3:44 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem | 4 hr |
| Aug 11, 4:48 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset, Sussex and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 11, 2:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon, Somerset | 58 min |
| Aug 11, 3:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset | 59 min |
| Aug 11, 3:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem | 60 min |
| Aug 11, 4:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth | 64 min |
| Aug 11, 4:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cape May, Cumberland | 85 min |
| Aug 11, 4:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 85 min | |
| Aug 11, 4:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean | 4 hr |
| Aug 11, 5:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 52 min |
| Aug 11, 6:13 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 92 min | |
| Aug 11, 6:36 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.