Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 2001, 10:24 AM EDT for Atlantic County, Ocean 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
- Jun 17, 2001, 10:24 AM EDT (14:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2001, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Atlantic County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 1061 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KPHI 171427 FFWPHI NJC001-029-171730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1024 AM EDT SUN JUN 17 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ATLANTIC COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY OCEAN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 130 PM EDT. * AT 1017 AM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS EASTERN NEW JERSEY. RAINFALL TOTALS ACROSS THE WARNED AREA HAVE RANGED FROM 1 TO 4 INCHES. SPOTTERS HAVE ALSO REPORTED FLOODED ROADWAYS. 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. FOR THE LATEST SfTORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. $$ QUAGLIARIELLO/IOVINO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 3:47 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Morris | 88 min |
| Jun 17, 7:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 8:35 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset | 4 hr |
| Jun 17, 9:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Monmouth | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 12:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Monmouth | 115 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001
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.