Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Aug 10, 2007, 8:02 AM EDT for Morris County, Somerset 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 2007, 8:02 AM EDT (12:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2007, 11:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Morris County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:03 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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 145 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 831 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS51 KPHI 101204
FFWPHI
NJC027-035-101500-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
802 AM EDT FRI AUG 10 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN MORRIS COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY...
NORTHEASTERN SOMERSET COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY...
* UNTIL 1100 AM EDT
* AT 800 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
PERSISTENT HEAVY RAINS OVER THE WARNED AREAS THAT ARE LIKELY TO
CAUSE FLASH FLOODING.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
MILLINGTON...BASKING RIDGE AND MADISON
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. MOTORISTS ON
ROUTE 22 AND INTERSTATE 78 SHOULD WATCH FOR FLOODED ROADWAYS.
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. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO
AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE USUALLY
DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL
ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED
ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE.
LAT...LON 4072 7438 4067 7446 4065 7445 4066 7442
4066 7440 4061 7442 4060 7444 4066 7459
4078 7460 4076 7436
TIME...MOT...LOC 1202Z 180DEG 0KT 4064 7440
$$
JRPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 3:30 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean | 18 hr |
| Aug 10, 2:05 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 55 min | |
| Aug 10, 3:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 53 min | |
| Aug 10, 5:48 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 39 min |
Nearby
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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.