Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 93, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Oct 19, 1996, 9:11 AM EDT for Mercer 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
- Oct 19, 1996, 9:11 AM EDT (13:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 19, 1996, 1:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 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 13:12 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, 1.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 582 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 400 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 191311 FFWPHL NJC021-191710- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ 911 AM EDT SAT OCT 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 110 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NEW JERSEY ...MERCER COUNTY RAINS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES HAVE CAUSED RAPID RISES ON THE ASSUNPINK CREEK IN TRENTON. THE AUTOMATIC GAGE IN TRENTON WAS READING 6.6 FEET AND RISING. FLOOD STAGE IS 7 FEET. ADDITIONAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED TO SEND THE CREEK OVER ITS BANKS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA. VERY HEAVY RAINS CAN CAUSE FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS IN A HURRY. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...THE VOICE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...OR TO COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION. 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 IBT AWAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 9:02 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Camden | 3 hr |
| Oct 19, 12:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Camden | 3 hr |
| Oct 19, 1:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Mercer | 11 hr |
| Oct 19, 1:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Mercer | 2 hr |
| Oct 19, 2:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Somerset | 4 hr |
| Oct 19, 5:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Sussex, Warren | 5 hr |
| Oct 19, 5:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Middlesex, Somerset | 5 hr |
| Oct 19, 7:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Mercer | 5 hr |
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.