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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 21, 2006Middlesex County, Somerset County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jul 21, 2006, 6:56 PM EDT for Middlesex County, Somerset 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: Jul 21, 2006, 6:56 PM EDT (22:56 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2006, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Middlesex County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 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
Jul 21, 7:35 PM EDT	FLASH FLOOD	Edison, NJ	FLOODING REPORTED ALONG ROUTE 514 IN EDISON.

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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 140 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 173 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 944 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KPHI 212257
FFWPHI
NJC023-035-220200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
656 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...PERTH AMBOY...NEW BRUNSWICK
  EAST CENTRAL SOMERSET COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 1000 PM EDT

* AT 652 PM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED CARS STUCK IN 
  FLOODED UNDERPASSES. 

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SOMERSET...
  SOCIETY HILL...SAYREVILLE...NORTH BRUNSWICK AND EDISON

MORE HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED OVER THE AREA DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF 
HOURS. 

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.

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. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 4036 7455 4037 7428 4058 7427 4055 7451

$$

AMC

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS71 KPHI 212346
FFSPHI

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
744 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 2006

NJC023-035-220200-
SOMERSET NJ-MIDDLESEX NJ-
744 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 2006

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR
MIDDLESEX AND SOUTHERN SOMERSET COUNTIES...

AT 730 PM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED FLOODING ALONG 
ROUTE 514...WOODBRIDGE ROAD...IN EDISON IN MIDDLESEX COUNTY.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.

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. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 4037 7471 4033 7434 4058 7427 4046 7473

$$

AMC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 2:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington	36 min
Jul 21, 2:56 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 10 more	37 hr
Jul 21, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Ocean	26 min
Jul 21, 3:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Middlesex	33 min
Jul 21, 5:08 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		52 min
Jul 21, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cumberland	33 min
Jul 21, 5:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Somerset	3 hr
Jul 21, 7:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon	29 min
Jul 21, 7:31 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Hunterdon	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 2006 Every 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.