Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Aug 12, 2000, 9:32 AM EDT for Morris County, Sussex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 118 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
- Aug 12, 2000, 9:32 AM EDT (13:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2000, 11:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Morris County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 745 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KPHI 121338 FFWPHI NJC027-037-121530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 932 AM EDT SAT AUG 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL MORRIS COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY EASTERN SUSSEX COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 1130 AM EDT. * AT 927 AM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SOME NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORMS AROUND THE SUSSEX/MORRIS COUNTY LINE. THESE STORMS HAVE DROPPED UP TO A RADAR ESTIMATED 2 INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE PAST TWO HOURS AND COULD DROP AROUND AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN THROUGH 1030 AM. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. 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 IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS COULD ALSO TRIGGER SOME MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. $$ LAT...LON 4112 7441 4086 7455 4090 7478 4121 7468 TFG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 8:58 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Monmouth | 14 hr |
| Aug 12, 10:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Morris, Sussex | 3 hr |
| Aug 12, 12:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Warren | 6 hr |
| Aug 12, 1:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Morris, Sussex | 6 hr |
| Aug 12, 1:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon | 6 hr |
| Aug 12, 2:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Somerset | 6 hr |
| Aug 12, 4:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington | 6 hr |
| Aug 12, 4:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Middlesex | 4 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.