Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2019
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2019, 8:35 PM EDT for Cape May County, Cumberland County, New Jersey. It was in force for 55 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
- May 28, 2019, 8:35 PM EDT (00:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2019, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Cape May County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:35 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 1:48 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 1731 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1366 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
The text
As transmitted.
603
WUUS51 KPHI 290035
SVRPHI
NJC009-011-290130-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0072.190529T0035Z-190529T0130Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
835 PM EDT Tue May 28 2019
The National Weather Service in Mount Holly NJ has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southeastern Cumberland County in southern New Jersey...
Cape May County in southern New Jersey...
* Until 930 PM EDT.
* At 835 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Dividing
Creek, or 9 miles south of Millville, moving southeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to vehicles is possible. Wind damage to
roofs, siding, trees, and power lines is possible.
* Locations impacted include...
Millville, Ocean City, Cape May, North Wildwood, Laurel Lake,
Wildwood Crest, Woodbine, Sea Isle City, Avalon, West Cape May,
Stone Harbor, Cape May Court House, Leesburg, Scotch Bonnet,
Seaville, Dennisville, Bricksboro, Strathmere, Fortesque and
Eldora.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A tornado watch remains in effect until 1000 PM EDT for southern New
Jersey.
Remain alert for a possible tornado! Tornadoes can develop quickly
from severe thunderstorms. If you spot a tornado go at once into the
basement or small central room in a sturdy structure.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
In addition to large hail and damaging winds, frequent cloud to
ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Move indoors
immediately. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough
to be struck by lightning.
&&
LAT...LON 3896 7496 3897 7494 3897 7496 3901 7496
3911 7489 3917 7490 3919 7503 3922 7503
3921 7510 3918 7515 3925 7520 3937 7501
3923 7463 3910 7470 3903 7479 3899 7479
3893 7489 3893 7497
TIME...MOT...LOC 0035Z 317DEG 26KT 3925 7508
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
Gorse1 follow-up statement
062
WWUS51 KPHI 290051
SVSPHI
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
851 PM EDT Tue May 28 2019
NJC009-011-290130-
/O.CON.KPHI.SV.W.0072.000000T0000Z-190529T0130Z/
Cumberland NJ-Cape May NJ-
851 PM EDT Tue May 28 2019
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM EDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN CUMBERLAND AND CAPE MAY COUNTIES...
At 850 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Eldora, or 15
miles north of Cape May, moving southeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to vehicles is possible. Wind damage to roofs,
siding, trees, and power lines is possible.
Locations impacted include...
Ocean City, Cape May, North Wildwood, Wildwood Crest, Woodbine, Sea
Isle City, Avalon, West Cape May, Stone Harbor, Cape May Court House,
Scotch Bonnet, Seaville, Dennisville, Strathmere, Eldora, North Cape
May, Belleplain Forest, Diamond Beach, Green Creek and Goshen.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A tornado watch remains in effect until 1000 PM EDT for southern New
Jersey.
Remain alert for a possible tornado! Tornadoes can develop quickly
from severe thunderstorms. If you spot a tornado go at once into the
basement or small central room in a sturdy structure.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading
killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to
be struck by lightning.
&&
LAT...LON 3896 7496 3897 7494 3897 7496 3901 7496
3911 7489 3917 7490 3919 7503 3922 7503
3921 7510 3930 7483 3923 7463 3910 7470
3903 7479 3899 7479 3893 7489 3893 7497
TIME...MOT...LOC 0050Z 315DEG 28KT 3915 7496
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
GorseThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 8:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Warren | 37 min |
| May 28, 8:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Morris, Sussex | 30 min |
| May 28, 8:34 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 41 min | |
| May 28, 8:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester | 25 min |
| May 28, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren | 61 min |
| May 28, 8:50 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Cape May | 78 min |
| May 28, 8:59 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 61 min | |
| May 28, 9:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Morris, Somerset | 63 min |
| May 28, 9:47 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 43 min | |
| May 28, 9:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth, Ocean | 23 min |
| May 28, 9:57 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 44 min | |
| May 28, 10:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 12 min |
| May 28, 10:28 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 58 min | |
| May 28, 10:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 45 min |
| May 28, 10:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington | 27 min |
| May 28, 10:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monmouth | 26 min |
| May 28, 11:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 30 min |
| May 28, 11:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 38 min |
| May 28, 11:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 39 min | |
| May 28, 11:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Ocean | 25 min |
| May 28, 11:57 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 48 min | |
| May 29, 3:18 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and 7 more | 18 hr |
| May 29, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Warren | 65 min |
| May 29, 3:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Hunterdon | 37 min |
| May 29, 3:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 4 hr |
| May 29, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 47 min |
| May 29, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset | 41 min |
| May 29, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Warren | 51 min |
| May 29, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Warren | 47 min |
| May 29, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Warren | 27 min |
| May 29, 4:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Sussex, Warren | 51 min |
| May 29, 4:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris | 32 min |
| May 29, 4:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 25 min |
| May 29, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean | 53 min |
| May 29, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer | 67 min |
| May 29, 5:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris | 29 min |
| May 29, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 57 min | |
| May 29, 5:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Sussex, Warren | 3 hr |
| May 29, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Sussex, Warren | 34 min |
| May 29, 5:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset | 4 hr |
| May 29, 5:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth | 27 min |
| May 29, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean and 1 more | 66 min |
| May 29, 5:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Sussex, Warren | 30 min |
| May 29, 6:01 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 59 min | |
| May 29, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Salem | 28 min |
| May 29, 6:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean | 4 hr |
| May 29, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 24 min |
| May 29, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Ocean | 61 min |
| May 29, 6:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Ocean | 3 hr |
| May 29, 6:35 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 55 min | |
| May 29, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem | 52 min |
| May 29, 7:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Ocean and 1 more | 3 hr |
| May 29, 7:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 60 min | |
| May 29, 7:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 65 min | |
| May 29, 7:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Ocean | 42 min |
| May 29, 7:35 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 85 min |
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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.