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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 24, 2006Monmouth County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 2006, 4:21 PM EDT for Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was in force for 4 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
Jun 24, 2006, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 2006, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
4 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), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 24, 7:00 PM EDTFLASH FLOOD4 W Belmar, NJFLOODING AT JUNCTION OF STATE HIGHWAYS 34 AND 138.

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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 141 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 2006-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 322 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2006-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 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
322 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
631 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KPHI 242022
FFWPHI
NJC025-250015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
421 PM EDT SAT JUN 24 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 418 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE COUNTY. ADDITIONAL                  
  THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE COUNTY THROUGH 6 PM. 

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  MORGANVILLE...YORKETOWN...TINTON FALLS...ROBERTSVILLE...RED BANK...
  LONG BRANCH...LINCROFT AND EAST FREEHOLD

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.

LAT...LON 4009 7453 4018 7430 4013 7404 4038 7396
      4044 7418 4018 7456

$$

PO/VM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 6:17 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBurlington, Camden, Gloucester4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 2006Every flash flood warning in 2006

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.