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Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

December 17, 2000Hunterdon County, Warren County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Dec 17, 2000, 6:55 AM EST for Hunterdon County, Warren County, New Jersey. It was in force for 3 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
Dec 17, 2000, 6:55 AM EST (11:55 UTC)
Expired
Dec 17, 2000, 10:00 AM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Warren County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:55 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 00:00Z, 11.9 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2000-12-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2000-12-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 291 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
427 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
291 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
638 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 171159
FFWPHI
NJC019-041-171500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
655 AM EST SUN DEC 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WARREN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY
  HUNTERDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 1000 AM EST.

* AT 650 AM EST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED UP TO TWO AND
  ONE HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE AREA SINCE LATE
  SATURDAY NIGHT...AND MORE RAIN IS ON THE WAY.

IF YOU LIVE NEAR A STREAM OR LOW LYING AREA PRONE TO FLOODING...
TAKE PREVENTIVE ACTION NOW.

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

$$
JJM

LAT...LON 4090 7478 4051 7500 4093 7508 4104 7499

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 17, 7:42 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPHIBurlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer3 hr
Dec 17, 7:55 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington, Camden35 min
Dec 17, 9:25 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISalem35 min
Dec 17, 10:20 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPHISussex3 hr
Dec 17, 11:01 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPHIBurlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer3 hr
Dec 17, 11:16 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPHIWarren3 hr
Dec 17, 11:47 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMercer, Middlesex28 min
Dec 17, 11:50 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPHIMiddlesex, Somerset3 hr
Dec 17, 12:26 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington, Ocean34 min
Dec 17, 12:49 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonmouth26 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.