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Flash Flood Warning 58, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

September 16, 1999Hunterdon County, Somerset County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Sep 16, 1999, 5:23 PM EDT for Hunterdon County, Somerset 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
Sep 16, 1999, 5:23 PM EDT (21:23 UTC)
Expired
Sep 16, 1999, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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°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

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

000 
TTAA00 KPHL 162122
FFWPHL
NJC019-035-170120-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
523 PM EDT THU SEP 16 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HUNTERDON COUNTY IN NEW JERSEY.
  SOMERSET COUNTY IN NEW JERSEY.

* UNTIL 930 PM EDT.

* RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 5 TO OVER 10 INCHES HAVE FALLEN THROUGHOUT
THE AREA. MOST STREAMS AND CREEKS ARE EITHER OUT OF THEIR BANKS
OR WILL RISE OUT OF THEIR BANKS THIS EVENING. NUMEROUS RAODS ARE
WATER COVERED AND IMPASSABLE. TRAVEL TONIGHT SHOULD NOT BE
ATTEMPTED UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE
THIS EVENING UNTIL FLOYD MOVES NORTH OF THE NEW YORK CITY AREA.
THE RAIN WILL END FROM SOUTH TO NORTH LATER THIS EVENING.

  DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
  ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
  CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN2 RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED
  QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

  FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER
  RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS...OR YOUR CABLE
  TELEVISION OUTLET.

  .END
  RPW

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, 12:11 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHISussex, Warren5 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

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.