Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Dec 17, 2000, 7:42 AM EST for 4 counties in 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, 7:42 AM EST (12:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 17, 2000, 10:15 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:42 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, 0.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 453 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 92 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 582 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 603 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS51 KPHI 171245
FFWPHL
NJC005-007-015-021-171515-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
742 AM EST SUN DEC 17 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
MERCER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY
WESTERN BURLINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY
CAMDEN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY
GLOUCESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY
* UNTIL 1015 AM EST.
* AT 740 AM EST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED..TORRENTIAL
DOWNPOURS MOVING THROUGH WEST CENTRAL NEW JERSEY. RAINFALL RATES OF
1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR ARE EXPECTED.
SMALL STREAMS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS CAN BE EXPECTED TO FLOOD.
REMEMBER...DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED AREAS. THE WATER MAY BE
DEEPER THAN YOU THINK.
FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE
TELEVISION OUTLET.
$$
RNS
LAT...LON 4025 7458 3984 7462 3956 7500 3976 7535
4017 7472 4037 7486The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 6:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Warren | 3 hr |
| Dec 17, 7:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 35 min |
| Dec 17, 9:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Salem | 35 min |
| Dec 17, 10:20 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Sussex | 3 hr |
| Dec 17, 11:01 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer | 3 hr |
| Dec 17, 11:16 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Warren | 3 hr |
| Dec 17, 11:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex | 28 min |
| Dec 17, 11:50 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Middlesex, Somerset | 3 hr |
| Dec 17, 12:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 34 min |
| Dec 17, 12:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth | 26 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.