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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

March 3, 1991Mercer County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Mar 3, 1991, 10:00 PM EST for Mercer County, New Jersey. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 3, 1991, 10:00 PM EST (03:00 UTC)
Expired
Mar 4, 1991, 2:45 AM EST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

County Mercer County, NJ

The nearest sounding before it

Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 94 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Atlantic City In, NJ at 00:00Z on 1991-03-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Atlantic City In, NJ at 00:00Z on 1991-03-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 314 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
593 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
314 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
504 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.