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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

April 27, 2007Hunterdon County, Somerset County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Apr 27, 2007, 2:14 AM EDT for Hunterdon 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 counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Apr 27, 2007, 2:14 AM EDT (06:14 UTC)
Expired
Apr 27, 2007, 5:15 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:13 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 27, 4:15 AM EDTFLASH FLOOD4 N Manville, NJEVACUATIONS IN THE FINDERNE SECTION OF BRIDGEWATER TOWNSHIP. FIVE FEET OF WATER. FLOODING OF STREAMS ALSO IN NORTHEAST PART OF THE COUNTY.

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 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 164 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 00:00Z on 2007-04-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2007-04-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 90 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1074 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
179 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 
WGUS51 KPHI 270615
FFWPHI
NJC019-035-270915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
214 AM EDT FRI APR 27 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 AM EDT

* AT 208 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THAT AROUND ONE INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE COUNTIES.
  BUT THUNDERSTORMS REPEATING OVER THE SAME AREAS IN ALL LIKELIHOOD
  WILL DROP AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE 
  NEXT TWO HOURS.  

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WHITE HOUSE
  STATION...LEBANON...FAR HILLS...CLINTON AND ANNANDALE

 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE
UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS
SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

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.

LAT...LON 4056 7453 4050 7449 4050 7447 4047 7449
      4041 7474 4042 7480 4039 7482 4036 7495
      4060 7510 4060 7510 4071 7454 4070 7451
      4064 7453 4066 7448 4061 7444

$$

TFG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 27, 4:53 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIHunterdon, Somerset3 hr
Apr 27, 8:08 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIHunterdon, Somerset97 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 2007Every flash flood warning in 2007

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.