Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 2004, 4:49 PM EDT for Gloucester County, Salem 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, 4:49 PM EDT (20:49 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
Counties Gloucester County, NJ, Salem County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KPHI 272049 FFWPHI NJC015-033-272345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 449 PM EDT TUE JUL 27 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... GLOUCESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY NORTHERN SALEM COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 745 PM EDT * AT 445 PM EDT...FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED ON ROUTE 42 NEAR THE ATLANTIC CITY EXPRESSWAY. THERE WAS ALSO A REPORT THAT A BRIDGE MAY BE WASHED OUT IN WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP IN GLOUCESTER COUNTY. AN AUTOMOBILE RESCUE WAS REPORTED AT NOTTINGHAM WAY IN TURNERSVILLE IN GLOUCESTER COUNTY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD BE MOVING OUT OF THE AREA DURING THE NEXT HOUR. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WOODSTOWN...MULLICA HILL...GLASSBORO AND ALLOWAY. 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 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. LAT...LON 3965 7551 3952 7535 3969 7503 3986 7517 $$ JRP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Salem | 30 min |
| Jul 27, 4:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 4:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 33 min |
| Jul 27, 7:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon | 3 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.