Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996

Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 14, 1996Hunterdon County, Mercer County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 1996, 8:05 PM EDT for Hunterdon County, Mercer County, New Jersey. It was in force for 115 min. 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 14, 1996, 8:05 PM EDT (00:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1996, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 115 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Whole counties

Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 171 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 484 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1341 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 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 150004
FFWPHL
NJC019-021-150200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ
805 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS
EXTENDED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN NEW JERSEY

   ...SOUTHERN HUNTERDON COUNTY
   ...MERCER COUNTY

AT 800 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS
CONTINUING ACROSS THE REGION...STILL PRODUCING LOCALLY VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL FROM SOUTHERN HUNTERDON COUNTY ACROSS MUCH OF MERCER COUNTY.
THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH...BUT SHOULD BE ENDING
FROM THE NORTHWEST BY 9 PM THIS EVENING.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PASSING OVER AREAS WHICH NOT ONLY MAY HAVE
RECEIVED HEAVY RAINS THIS AFTERNOON...BUT WERE STILL WATER-LOGGED
FROM THE FLOODING RAINS WEDNESDAY EVENING.

RADAR HAS BEEN ESTIMATING UP TO ONE AND ONE-HALF INCHES OF RAIN PER
HOUR WITH THESE STORMS.

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED AREAS. THE WATER MAY BE
DEEPER 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.

IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA PRONE TO FLOODING...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND
IMMEDIATELY...BEFORE YOUR ACCESS IS CUT OFF BY RISING FLOOD WATERS.
IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS...ABANDON IT AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND QUICKLY.
RAPIDLY RISING WATER MAY ENGULF THE CAR AND SWEEP IT AWAY.

KRAUS/JONES

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 1996 Every 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.