Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2024
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2024, 6:04 PM EDT for Middlesex County, Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was in force for 41 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
- Aug 3, 2024, 6:04 PM EDT (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2024, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Middlesex County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 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 3, 6:22 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Nw Middletown, NJ | A few trees down near Middletown. Time estimated from radar. |
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 3, 1:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 388 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 974 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted.
890
WUUS51 KPHI 032204
SVRPHI
NJC023-025-032245-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0178.240803T2204Z-240803T2245Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
604 PM EDT Sat Aug 3 2024
The National Weather Service in Mount Holly NJ has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
North central Monmouth County in central New Jersey...
Eastern Middlesex County in northern New Jersey...
* Until 645 PM EDT.
* At 604 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Old Bridge,
or near New Brunswick, moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter 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...
New Brunswick, Perth Amboy, Edison, Old Bridge, East Brunswick,
Sayreville, Marlboro, Carteret, Holmdel, Matawan, Jamesburg,
Colonia, Brownville, Dayton, Robertsville, Yorketown, Morganville,
Whittingham, North Brunswick Township, and West Freehold.
This includes the following highways...
New Jersey Turnpike between exits 10 and 13.
Interstate 287 in New Jersey between mile markers 0 and 3.
Garden State Parkway between mile markers 114 and 134.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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 4024 7431 4038 7452 4061 7435 4061 7431
4059 7429 4060 7421 4056 7421 4055 7425
4050 7426 4050 7428 4047 7427 4044 7420
4046 7418 4043 7408
TIME...MOT...LOC 2204Z 223DEG 26KT 4040 7439
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
Staarmann2 follow-up statements
314
WWUS51 KPHI 032220
SVSPHI
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
620 PM EDT Sat Aug 3 2024
NJC023-025-032245-
/O.CON.KPHI.SV.W.0178.000000T0000Z-240803T2245Z/
Monmouth NJ-Middlesex NJ-
620 PM EDT Sat Aug 3 2024
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM EDT
FOR NORTH CENTRAL MONMOUTH AND NORTHEASTERN MIDDLESEX COUNTIES...
At 620 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Sayreville, or
near Perth Amboy, moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to vehicles is possible. Wind damage to roofs,
siding, trees, and power lines is possible.
Locations impacted include...
Perth Amboy, Edison, Sayreville, Carteret, Holmdel, Matawan, Colonia,
Woodbridge, Metuchen, Keyport, Madison Park, Iselin, Sewaren, Port
Reading, Strathmore, North Middletown, Fords, Avenel, and Laurence
Harbor.
This includes the following highways...
New Jersey Turnpike between exits 11 and 13.
Interstate 287 in New Jersey between mile markers 0 and 3.
Garden State Parkway between mile markers 114 and 134.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Move
indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading killers.
Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck
by lightning.
&&
LAT...LON 4034 7419 4051 7442 4061 7435 4061 7431
4059 7429 4060 7421 4056 7421 4055 7425
4050 7426 4050 7428 4047 7427 4044 7420
4046 7418 4043 7408
TIME...MOT...LOC 2220Z 223DEG 26KT 4047 7427
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
Staarmann312
WWUS51 KPHI 032237
SVSPHI
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
637 PM EDT Sat Aug 3 2024
NJC023-025-032247-
/O.EXP.KPHI.SV.W.0178.000000T0000Z-240803T2245Z/
Monmouth NJ-Middlesex NJ-
637 PM EDT Sat Aug 3 2024
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL MONMOUTH AND
NORTHEASTERN MIDDLESEX COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 645 PM EDT...
The storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 900 PM EDT for
northern and central New Jersey.
To report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement
agency. They will relay your report to the National Weather Service
Mount Holly NJ.
LAT...LON 4034 7419 4051 7442 4061 7435 4061 7431
4059 7429 4060 7421 4056 7421 4055 7425
4050 7426 4050 7428 4047 7427 4044 7420
4046 7418 4043 7408
TIME...MOT...LOC 2237Z 223DEG 26KT 4053 7419
$$
StaarmannThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 9:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Camden, Gloucester, Salem | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 9:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Camden, Gloucester, Salem | 4 hr |
| Aug 2, 10:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 3:17 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth and 2 more | 17 hr |
| Aug 3, 12:20 PM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and 7 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 3, 1:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris, Sussex, Warren | 48 min |
| Aug 3, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris, Sussex | 55 min |
| Aug 3, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Warren | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 5:40 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 2 hr | |
| Aug 3, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem | 59 min |
| Aug 3, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem | 74 min |
| Aug 3, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, Somerset | 56 min |
| Aug 3, 6:52 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 2 hr | |
| Aug 3, 7:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 2 hr | |
| Aug 3, 7:30 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 2 hr | |
| Aug 3, 7:57 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 63 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.