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Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 12, 1996Mercer County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 1996, 9:50 PM EDT for Mercer County, New Jersey. It was in force for 4 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
Jun 12, 1996, 9:50 PM EDT (01:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1996, 2:00 AM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

County Mercer County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:53 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 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 1996-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 193 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 1996-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
193 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
693 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPHL 130154
FFWPHL
NJC021-130600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ
950 PM EDT WED JUN 12 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY HAS EXTENDED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN  NEW JERSEY

   ...MERCER COUNTY

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS EXTENDED
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MERCER COUNTY UNTIL 200 AM THURSDAY.
WHILE THE HEAVIEST RAIN IS NOW MOVING OUT OF THE AREA...LIGHTER
SHOWERS PERSIST THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY.

AT 950 PM...THE ASSUNPINK CREEK AT TRENTON WAS 9.1 FEET AND RISING.
THE ASSUNPINK CREEK IS NOW EXPECTED TO CREST BETWEEN 9 AND 10 FEET
EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. FLOOD STAGE ON THE ASSUNPINK CREEK AT
TRENTON IS 7 FEET.

RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT MERCER COUNTY ARE ADVISED TO AVOID DRIVING THROUGH
FLOODED STREETS AND HIGHWAYS.

PLEASE MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...AND YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND
TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THE FLOOD WARNING.


JJM/JAE

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 10:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMercer5 hr
Jun 13, 4:15 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMercer4 hr
Jun 13, 3:55 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMercer3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.