Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Aug 12, 2000, 12:07 PM EDT for Hunterdon County, Warren County, New Jersey. It was in force for 6 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
- Aug 12, 2000, 12:07 PM EDT (16:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Warren County, NJ
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 177 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 121613 FFWPHI NJC019-041-122200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1207 PM EDT SAT AUG 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN WARREN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY NORTHWESTERN HUNTERDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 600 PM EDT. * AT 1204 PM EDT...ROXBURY TOWNSHIP POLICE REPORTED THAT WATERS FROM LAKE HOPATCONG WERE SPILLING OVER INTO THE MUSCONETCONG RIVER. UP TO TEN INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN IN THE LAKE HOPATCONG BASIN AND SOME OF THIS RAINFALL MUST DRAIN THROUGH THE LAKE AND MUSCONETCONG RIVER. 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. AVOID ROADWAYS NEAR THE MUSCONETCONG RIVER AND DO NOT DRIVE AROUND BARRICADES. FOLLOW THE DIRECTION OF POLICE AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN YOUR AREA. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. $$ 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, 9:32 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Morris, Sussex | 118 min |
| Aug 12, 10:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Morris, Sussex | 3 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
Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000
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.