Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 70, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 1996, 8:32 PM EDT for Burlington 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
- Aug 16, 1996, 8:32 PM EDT (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1996, 12:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burlington County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:43 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 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 170032 FFWPHL NJC005-170430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ 832 PM EDT FRI AUG 16 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NEW JERSEY ...NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON COUNTY THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN BEGAN TO AFFECT THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN PARTS OF BURLINGTON COUNTY BETWEEN 600 AND 700 PM. BY 800 PM...MANY LOCATIONS IN THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN PARTS OF THE COUNTY HAD RECEIVED OVER 2 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN. THE HEAVY RAIN HAS RESULTED IN WIDESPREAD FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND IN AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE. THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS FALLEN IN MOUNT LAUREL...MOUNT HOLLY...WRIGHTSTOWN AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES. EVEN THOUGH THE HEAVIEST OF THE RAIN WILL END BY ABOUT 900 PM... RUNOFF WILL LIKELY CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING PROBLEMS IN THE COUNTY PAST MIDNIGHT. AS A RESULT...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHERN AND WESTERN BURLINGTON COUNTY HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO 1230 AM ON SATURDAY. ALSO...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM AND IN AN AREA PRONE TO FLOODING...BE ALERT TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS WILL QUICKLY CAUSE FLOODING IN AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE AND IN LOW LYING SPOTS. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS. STAY TUNEfD TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...THE VOICE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION. WN/DI &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 8:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Camden | 47 min |
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.