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Flash Flood Warning 54, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 23, 1996Mercer County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jun 23, 1996, 1:30 AM EDT for Mercer County, New Jersey. It was in force for 8 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 23, 1996, 1:30 AM EDT (05:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1996, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
8 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 05:32 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, 5.5 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 1996-06-23Temperature 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, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 1996-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 292 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
770 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
292 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
422 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPHL 230531
FFWPHL
NJC021-231300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ
130 AM EDT SUN JUN 23 1996

...FLOOD WARNING FOR ASSUNPINK CREEK EXTENDED UNTIL 9 AM SUNDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS EXTENDED THE FLOOD
WARNING FOR THE ASSUNPINK CREEK IN MERCER COUNTY UNTIL 9 AM SUNDAY.

THE STAGE OF THE ASSUNPINK AT TRENTON WAS 8.69 FEET AT 115 AM. THE
ASSUNPINK APPARENTLY CRESTED JUST OVER 8.7 FEET AT ABOUT 1 AM. THE
LEVEL SHOULD SLOWLY FALL OVERNIGHT AND GO BACK BELOW THE FLOOD STAGE
OF 7 FEET BY 9 AM.

AVOID AREAS WHICH ARE PRONE TO FLOODING. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT
NIGHT WHEN IT IS MORE DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE FLOOD DANGERS. IF YOU
GET CAUGHT BY FLOOD WATERS...LEAVE YOUR CAR AND GET TO HIGHER GROUND
QUICKLY. YOUR LIFE MAY DEPEND ON IT.

KRAUS

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.