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Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 21, 2006Hunterdon County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jul 21, 2006, 7:31 PM EDT for Hunterdon 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
Jul 21, 2006, 7:31 PM EDT (23:31 UTC)
Expired
Jul 21, 2006, 10:30 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hunterdon County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 178 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 2006-07-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 173 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 2006-07-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 86 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KPHI 212332
FFWPHI
NJC019-220230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN HUNTERDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 1030 PM EDT

* AT 726 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS 
  OVER THE WARNED AREA.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  FLEMINGTON

ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED OVER THIS AREA DURING THE NEXT 
HOUR OR TWO.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW
LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.

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 4034 7493 4041 7475 4051 7480 4049 7506

$$

AMC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 21, 2:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington36 min
Jul 21, 2:56 PM EDTFlash Flood WatchPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 10 more37 hr
Jul 21, 3:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington, Ocean26 min
Jul 21, 3:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMiddlesex33 min
Jul 21, 5:08 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI52 min
Jul 21, 5:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICumberland33 min
Jul 21, 5:33 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHISomerset3 hr
Jul 21, 6:56 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMiddlesex, Somerset3 hr
Jul 21, 7:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon29 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.