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Flash Flood Warning 69, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 11, 2004Monmouth County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Aug 11, 2004, 7:45 PM EDT for Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was in force for 2 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 11, 2004, 7:45 PM EDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 11, 2004, 9:45 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Monmouth County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2004-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1077 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2004-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 72 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
1077 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
599 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KPHI 112348
FFWPHI
NJC025-120145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
745 PM EDT WED AUG 11 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME NORTHERN MONMOUTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 945 PM EDT

* AT 743 PM EDT...ROADWAY FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN CLIFFWOOD 
BEACH AND ABERDEEN. THE HEAVY RAIN FELL IN A THUNDERSTORM THAT HAS
NOW MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.

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.

LAT...LON 4039 7425 4039 7413 4041 7407 4045 7412
      4045 7422

$$

RPW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 11, 12:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMorris59 min
Aug 11, 1:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Somerset60 min
Aug 11, 1:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMorris46 min
Aug 11, 2:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISomerset28 min
Aug 11, 3:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMiddlesex, Somerset78 min
Aug 11, 4:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonmouth23 min
Aug 11, 5:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington53 min
Aug 11, 5:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMiddlesex67 min
Aug 11, 6:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMercer41 min
Aug 11, 6:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Somerset73 min
Aug 11, 6:47 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMiddlesex118 min
Aug 11, 7:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMercer32 min
Aug 11, 7:58 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMercer2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.