Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 82, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Sep 8, 1996, 6:48 PM EDT for Burlington County, New Jersey. It was in force for 117 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
- Sep 8, 1996, 6:48 PM EDT (22:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 1996, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 117 min
- 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 22:51 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 12:00Z, 10.8 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
- 153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPHL 082248 FFWPHL NJC005-090045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ 648 PM EDT SUN SEP 8 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NEW JERSEY ...WESTERN BURLINGTON COUNTY AT 645 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AND SATELLITE ESTIMATES OF RAINFALL SHOWED OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN AN HOUR POSSIBLE FROM THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH WESTERN BURLINGTON COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY EAST AT 15 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA PRONE TO FLOODING...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY...BEFORE YOUR ACCESS IS CUT OFF BY RISING FLOOD WATERS. CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...AND YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THE FLOOD WARNING. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED AREAS. THE DEPTH OF THEZ 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Somerset | 40 min |
| Sep 8, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Middlesex | 33 min |
| Sep 8, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth | 50 min |
| Sep 8, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth | 34 min |
| Sep 8, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Ocean | 43 min |
| Sep 8, 6:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Burlington | 26 min |
| Sep 8, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 64 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.