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Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 27, 2004Burlington County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 2004, 4:44 PM EDT for Burlington 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 27, 2004, 4:44 PM EDT (20:44 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 2004, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Burlington County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 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

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 125 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2004-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 54 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2004-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 140 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
54 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
534 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
140 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
191 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 272044
FFWPHI
NJC005-272345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
444 PM EDT TUE JUL 27 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BURLINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 440 PM EDT...HEAVY RAINS WERE CONTINUING OVER WESTERN AND 
CENTRAL BURLINGTON COUNTY...AND MORE RAIN WAS OCCURRING JUST 
UPSTREAM OVER GLOUCESTER AND CAMDEN COUNTIES. THE SHOWERS AND 
THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR AND 
WILL CONTINUE OVER BURLINGTON COUNTY FOR AT LEAST THROUGH 530 PM.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL 
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW
LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.

FLOODING 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.

LAT...LON 3994 7493 3976 7470 3980 7446 4007 7473

$$

JRP

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 2:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISalem30 min
Jul 27, 4:49 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIGloucester, Salem3 hr
Jul 27, 4:57 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIBurlington, Ocean33 min
Jul 27, 7:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIHunterdon3 hr

Nearby

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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.