Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 2004, 3:40 PM EDT for Hunterdon County, Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was in force for 77 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2004, 3:40 PM EDT (19:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 2004, 5:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 77 days
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:42 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 445 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 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 141949 CCA FFWPHI NJC019-142245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 340 PM EDT WED JUL 14 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HUNTERDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 645 PM EDT * AT 337 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED BETWEEN 1.5 AND 2.0 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN DURING THE PAST HOUR. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN OF AROUND ANOTHER INCH IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS SIMILAR LOCATIONS. FLOODING IS EXPECTED ALONG THE LOCKATONG...MUDDY CREEK AND WICKECHOKE CREEKS. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES... DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM... EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. 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. DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. LAT...LON 4055 7507 4035 7491 4045 7480 4066 7473 $$ TFG
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS51 KPHI 290616 FFWPHI NJC025-290900- /X.NEW.KPHI.FF.W.0024.040929T0613Z-040929T0915Z/ /0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 215 AM EDT WED SEP 29 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MONMOUTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 500 AM EDT * AT 215 AM EDT...HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED TO FALL IN MONMOUTH COUNTY RESULTING IN ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING. THE MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL COME TO AN END IN THE COUNTY BY 400 AM AND THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING WILL QUICKLY SUBSIDE. LAT...LON 4016 7452 4017 7405 4039 7400 4041 7422 $$ IOVINO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon | 53 min |
| Jul 14, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Somerset | 55 min |
| Jul 14, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Salem | 60 min |
| Jul 14, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Somerset | 56 min |
| Jul 14, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cumberland, Salem | 56 min |
| Jul 14, 5:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Cumberland, Salem | 35 min |
| Jul 14, 5:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Salem | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 64 min |
| Jul 14, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer | 52 min |
| Jul 14, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Cumberland | 65 min |
| Jul 14, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May | 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.