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Flash Flood Warning 62, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 28, 2006Gloucester County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2006, 12:50 AM EDT for Gloucester 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 28, 2006, 12:50 AM EDT (04:50 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 2006, 3:45 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Gloucester County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:50 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 200 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2006-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2565 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2006-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 91 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2565 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
929 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.5

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KPHI 280453
FFWPHI
NJC015-280745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1250 AM EDT FRI JUL 28 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GLOUCESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 345 AM EDT

* AT 1246 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED FLASH FLOODING WAS IMMINENT FROM A THUNDERSTORM MOVING
  INTO THE COUNTY FROM SALEM COUNTY. 

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO MULLICA
  HILL...MANTUA TOWNSHIP...WOOLWICH TOWNSHIP AND GIBBSTOWN

FLOODING HAD OCCURRED EARLIER FROM STORMS THAT MOVED THROUGH THE 
COUNTY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AROUND AN INCH ARE POSSIBLE 
AND WOULD GENERATE MORE FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 3978 7535 3954 7499 3962 7490 3987 7522

$$

EBERWINE/MPD
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS71 KPHI 280657
FFSPHI

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
257 AM EDT FRI JUL 28 2006

NJC015-280707-
GLOUCESTER NJ-
257 AM EDT FRI JUL 28 2006

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR GLOUCESTER COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

LAT...LON 3978 7535 3954 7499 3962 7490 3987 7522

$$

MPD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 8:39 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI96 min
Jul 27, 9:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIGloucester, Salem40 min
Jul 27, 10:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington, Camden56 min
Jul 27, 10:14 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Ocean2 hr
Jul 27, 10:38 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI97 min
Jul 28, 12:04 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIGloucester, Salem56 min
Jul 28, 12:40 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington65 min
Jul 28, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICamden, Gloucester56 min
Jul 28, 3:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington53 min
Jul 28, 3:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Camden, Monmouth, Ocean73 min
Jul 28, 3:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMiddlesex, Somerset47 min
Jul 28, 3:46 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI89 min
Jul 28, 4:04 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI86 min
Jul 28, 4:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICape May41 min
Jul 28, 4:50 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI25 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.