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Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

September 16, 1999Sussex County, Warren County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Sep 16, 1999, 12:11 PM EDT for Sussex County, Warren County, New Jersey. It was in force for 5 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
Sep 16, 1999, 12:11 PM EDT (16:11 UTC)
Expired
Sep 16, 1999, 5:10 PM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

Counties Sussex County, NJ, Warren County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:10 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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 12:00Z on 1999-09-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1999-09-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 291 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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
443 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
291 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
362 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 16, 9:25 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHICamden, Gloucester, Salem6 hr
Sep 16, 10:01 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBurlington, Mercer6 hr
Sep 16, 10:34 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIHunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset6 hr
Sep 16, 10:34 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMonmouth6 hr
Sep 16, 2:41 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHICamden, Gloucester, Salem6 hr
Sep 16, 2:41 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBurlington6 hr
Sep 16, 2:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMercer7 hr
Sep 16, 4:21 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIHunterdon, Morris, Sussex, Warren5 hr
Sep 16, 4:21 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMiddlesex, Somerset5 hr
Sep 16, 5:23 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIHunterdon, Somerset4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 1999Every flash flood warning in 1999

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.