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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Aug 14, 2005, 5:39 PM EDT for Sussex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 2005, 5:39 PM EDT (21:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2005, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sussex County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:42 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 5:40 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Newton, NJ | MULTIPLE ROADWAYS FLOODED. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 1871 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 901 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS51 KPHI 142142
FFWPHI
NJC037-150045-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
539 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN SUSSEX COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY
* UNTIL 845 PM EDT
* AT 535 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS CONTINUING TO MOVE ACROSS
SOUTHERN SUSSEX COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN
HAS ALREADY FALLEN AND MORE STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE
REGION THROUGH THE EVENING. STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
NEWTON...HOPATCONG...LAKE MOHAWK AND FRANKLIN.
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.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. TURN AROUND, DONT DROWN.
LAT...LON 4108 7497 4092 7478 4092 7466 4104 7454
4120 7451
$$
OHARAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 2:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 35 min |
| Aug 14, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 51 min |
| Aug 14, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Warren | 21 min |
| Aug 14, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 39 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.