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Red Flag Warning 8, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

April 2, 20065 counties in New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this red flag warning at Apr 2, 2006, 1:47 PM EDT for 5 counties in New Jersey. It took effect at Apr 2, 2006, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 2006, 1:47 PM EDT (17:47 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 2, 2006, 2:00 PM EDT
Expired: Apr 2, 2006, 5:42 PM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Warren County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:46 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1096 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WWUS81 KPHI 021747
RFWPHI

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
147 PM EDT SUN APR 2 2006


NJZ001-007>010-022300-
/O.NEW.KPHI.FW.W.0008.060402T1800Z-060402T2300Z/
SUSSEX-WARREN-MORRIS-HUNTERDON-SOMERSET-
147 PM EDT SUN APR 2 2006

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING. THE WINDS
CONTINUE TO GUST IN EXCESS OF 20 MPH IN SOME AREAS AND THE
RELATIVE HUMIDITY HAS DROPPED INTO THE LOW TO MID 20 AND WILL CONTINUE
TO LOWER. 

THE RAINS THAT FELL YESTERDAY HAS LITTLE IF ANY IMPACT ON FIRE DANGER
CONDITIONS AND AT MOST LOCATIONS WAS HARDLY A MEASURABLE AAMOUNT 

ANOTHER WEATHER SYSTEMS IS EXPECTED ON MONDAY INTO TUESDAY WHICH MAY
HAVE A MORE WIDESPREAD RAIN SHIELD ASSOCIATED WITH IT AND EVEN
SOME HEAVIER RAIN. THE WINDS WILL BE FROM THE EAST SO THE HUMIDITY
WILL BE HIGH DURING THE DAY.

IN THE MEANTIME, CONTINUE TO EXTREME CAREFUL NOT TO START FIRES
WITHOUT NOTIFYING THE APPROPRIATE FIRE OFFICIALS. 
 
A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS
ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUR. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW
RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...AND DRY FUELS WILL CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT
FOR SIGNIFICANT FIRE GROWTH.

$$

EBERWINE

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS81 KPHI 022142
RFWPHI

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
542 PM EDT SUN APR 2 2006

NJZ001-007>010-022245-
/O.CAN.KPHI.FW.W.0008.000000T0000Z-060402T2300Z/
SUSSEX-WARREN-MORRIS-HUNTERDON-SOMERSET-
542 PM EDT SUN APR 2 2006

...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED...

WITH WINDS NO LONGER GUSTING UP TO 20 MPH, THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING.

$$

KRUZDLO

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