Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 60, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Aug 1, 2004, 10:21 AM EDT for Monmouth 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 2004, 10:21 AM EDT (14:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2004, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 1230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 479 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KPHI 011424 FFWPHI NJC025-029-011700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1021 AM EDT SUN AUG 1 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN MONMOUTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY NORTHEASTERN OCEAN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 100 PM EDT * AT 1018 AM EDT...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED STREET FLOODING IN SOUTHEASTERN MONMOUTH COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS WITH ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL BE MOVING OVER NORTHEASTERN OCEAN COUNTY AND SOUTHEASTERN MONMOUTH WHERE OVER AN INCH OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN AND AN ADDITIONAL TWO TO THREE INCHES CAN FALL THE REST OF THIS MORNING AND PUSH SMALL STREAMS OVER THEIR BANKS. 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. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. LAT...LON 4031 7389 3976 7403 3996 7437 4027 7426 $$ TFG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 7:38 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon | 112 min |
| Aug 1, 8:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 115 min |
| Aug 1, 8:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Gloucester, Salem | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 8:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Middlesex, Somerset | 2 hr |
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.