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Flash Flood Warning 105, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Oct 19, 1996, 5:55 PM EDT for Middlesex County, Somerset County, New Jersey. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 19, 1996, 5:55 PM EDT (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 19, 1996, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Middlesex County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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 nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 582 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 400 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPHL 192210 RRA FFWPHL PAC025-089-095-NJC019-023-027-035-037-041-200300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ 555 PM EDT SAT OCT 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED AND OR EXTENDED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...MONROE...CARBON AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES IN NEW JERSEY ...SUSSEX...WARREN...MORRIS...SOMERSET...MIDDLESEX AND HUNTERDON COUNTIES AUTOMATED RAINFALL GAGES AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATE 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER MUCH OF THESE COUNTIES. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL OCCUR THROUGH THIS EVENING. MANY STREAMS WILL...OR HAVE ALREADY... EXCEEDED BANKFULL. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED AREAS. THE DEPTH OF THE WATER MAY BE HIGHER THAN YOU THINK. RAPIDLY RISING WATERS CAN QUICKLY ENGULF YOUR VEHICLE AND ITS OCCUPANTS...WASHING THEM AWAY. REMEMBER...MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES AND AT NIGHT. SEE ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND/OR WARNINGS CONCERNING SPECIFIC STREAMS OR RIVERS. NC/TFG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 9:02 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Camden | 3 hr |
| Oct 19, 9:11 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Mercer | 4 hr |
| Oct 19, 12:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Camden | 3 hr |
| Oct 19, 1:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Mercer | 11 hr |
| Oct 19, 1:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Mercer | 2 hr |
| Oct 19, 2:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Somerset | 4 hr |
| Oct 19, 5:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Sussex, Warren | 5 hr |
| Oct 19, 7:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Mercer | 5 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.