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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 30, 2000Gloucester County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jul 30, 2000, 5:58 PM EDT for Gloucester County, New Jersey. It was in force for 2 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
Jul 30, 2000, 5:58 PM EDT (21:58 UTC)
Expired
Jul 30, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

County Gloucester County, NJ

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 200 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 2000-07-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 870 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 2000-07-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
870 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
690 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KPHI 302159
FFWPHI
NJC015-310000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
558 PM EDT SUN JUL 30 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GLOUCESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT.

* AT 555 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A NEARLY
STATIONARY THUDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK
HIGHER GROUND.

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

$$
LAT...LON 3953 7504 3958 7490 3989 7516 3980 7530

WN

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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.