Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 103, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Sep 28, 2004, 7:41 PM EDT for 8 counties in 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 28, 2004, 7:41 PM EDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 2004, 1:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Middlesex County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Warren County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 318 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 469 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS51 KPHI 282346
FFWPHI
NJC019-021-023-025-027-035-037-041-290545-
/X.NEW.KPHI.FF.W.0022.040928T2341Z-040929T0545Z/
/0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
741 PM EDT TUE SEP 28 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED
OR EXTENDED THE
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
MERCER COUNTY
MONMOUTH COUNTY
MIDDLESEX COUNTY
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...PERTH AMBOY...NEW BRUNSWICK
MORRIS COUNTY
SOMERSET COUNTY
HUNTERDON COUNTY
SUSSEX COUNTY
EASTERN WARREN
* UNTIL 145 AM EDT
* AT 740 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED TO FALL ACROSS THE WARNING AREA.
NUMEROUS STREAMS WERE FLOODING AND THERE ALSO WAS POOR DRAINAGE
FLOODING. SIGNIFICANT RISES ARE EXPECTED WITH MAIN STEM RIVERS
ESPECIALLY IN THE RARITAN BASIN. PLEASE BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE
RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS LATER THIS EVENING.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
WHITE HOUSE STATION...WEST FREEHOLD...TWIN
RIVERS...TINTON FALLS...SUSSEX...STANHOPE...
SOMERVILLE...SAYREVILLE...ROCKY HILL...
RED BANK...PRINCETON...PEQUANNOCK TOWNSHIP...
PENNINGTON...PARSIPPANY...OXFORD...
MORRISTOWN...MILLSTONE...MIDDLESEX...
MADISON...LONG VALLEY...LINCROFT...LEBANON...
TELEMARK...LAKE MOHAWK...KINNELON...
JAMESBURG...HOPEWELL...HOPATCONG...
GLEN GARDNER...FRANKLIN...FLEMINGTON...
HANOVER...EAST FREEHOLD...EAST BRUNSWICK...
COLONIA...CLEARBROOK PARK...CHESTER...
LAKE...BRANCHVILLE...BOUND BROOK...BOONTON...
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE
UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS
SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE.
LAT...LON 4031 7481 4014 7396 4100 7432 4129 7469
4076 7509
$$
TFGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 12:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 3 hr |
| Sep 28, 4:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Salem | 34 min |
| Sep 28, 4:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset, Sussex and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 28, 7:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth | 53 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004
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.