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Flash Flood Warning 61, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 31, 1996Mercer County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jul 31, 1996, 11:52 AM EDT for Mercer County, New Jersey. It was in force for 6 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
Jul 31, 1996, 11:52 AM EDT (15:52 UTC)
Expired
Jul 31, 1996, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
6 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 15:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 150 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 1996-07-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1268 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 1996-07-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 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
1268 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
474 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
3.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPHL 311553
FFWPHL
NJC021-312200-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1152 AM EDT WED JUL 31 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  NEW JERSEY
 
   ...MERCER COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED RAINFALL TOTALLING OVER 3 INCHES
IN PORTIONS OF MERCER COUNTY. THE ASSUNPINK CREEK IN MERCER COUNTY WAS
ALREADY UP TO 7.9 FEET AND RISING RAPIDLY. THE ASSUNPINK CREEK WILL
CONTINUE TO RISE TODAY TO AT LEAST 9 TO 10 FEET THIS EVENING. IF
ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN OCCURS IN MERCER COUNTY...THE CREST COULD BE
HIGHER. FLOOD STAGE IS 7 FEET.
 
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.
 
 
 
&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 31, 10:34 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMercer, Middlesex, Monmouth2 hr
Jul 31, 10:34 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHISomerset2 hr
Jul 31, 11:44 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBurlington2 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.