Alert archive / New Jersey / Coastal Flood Statements in 2008
Coastal Flood Statement 16, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this coastal flood statement at Sep 2, 2008, 5:48 AM EDT for Sussex County, Delaware; 4 counties in New Jersey. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 2008, 5:48 AM EDT (09:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2008, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Sussex County, DE, Atlantic County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:54 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 1710 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WHUS41 KPHI 020948 CFWPHI COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 548 AM EDT TUE SEP 2 2008 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-030000- /O.NEW.KPHI.CF.S.0016.080902T0948Z-080903T0000Z/ DELAWARE BEACHES-EASTERN MONMOUTH-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY- COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN- 548 AM EDT TUE SEP 2 2008 ...MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS INTO THIS EVENING... LONG PERIOD SOUTHEASTERLY SWELLS WILL CONTINUE TO BE GENERATED ALONG THE COASTS OF NEW JERSEY AND DELAWARE TODAY. WAVES IN THE SURF ZONE WILL GENERALLY BE 3 TO 4 FEET IN A LONG PERIOD SWELL, THEREFORE THERE IS A MODERATE TO APPROACHING HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS INTO THIS EVENING. A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS IMPLIES THAT INDIVIDUALS PLANNING TO ENTER THE SURF SHOULD CHECK WITH LOCAL BEACH PATROLS FIRST. BE SURE TO SWIM WITHIN SIGHT OF A LIFE GUARD, AND NEVER SWIM ALONE OR AT NIGHT. A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS MEANS DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING CONDITIONS EXIST FOR ALL PEOPLE ENTERING THE SURF. LIFEGUARDS ARE REPORTING DANGEROUS CONDITIONS EXISTING IN THE SURF. AN ENHANCED RISK OF RIP CURRENTS IS ANTICIPATED TO CONTINUE RIGHT INTO THE WEEKEND. $$ GORSE
1 follow-up statement
000 WHUS41 KPHI 021022 CFWPHI COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 622 AM EDT TUE SEP 2 2008 ...THE INCREASED RIP CURRENT RISK CONTINUES... DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-030000- /O.CON.KPHI.CF.S.0016.000000T0000Z-080903T0000Z/ DELAWARE BEACHES-EASTERN MONMOUTH-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY- COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN- 622 AM EDT TUE SEP 2 2008 ...MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS INTO THIS EVENING... LONG PERIOD SOUTHEASTERLY SWELLS WILL CONTINUE TO BE GENERATED ALONG THE COASTS OF NEW JERSEY AND DELAWARE TODAY. WAVES IN THE SURF ZONE WILL GENERALLY BE 3 TO 4 FEET IN A LONG PERIOD SWELL, THEREFORE THERE IS A MODERATE TO APPROACHING HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS INTO THIS EVENING. IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT SINCE WE ARE NOW PASSED LABOR DAY, MANY BEACHES ARE NO LONGER GUARDED. THEREFORE, ONLY SWIM IN LIFE GUARDED AREAS. A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS IMPLIES THAT INDIVIDUALS PLANNING TO ENTER THE SURF SHOULD CHECK WITH LOCAL BEACH PATROLS FIRST. BE SURE TO SWIM WITHIN SIGHT OF A LIFE GUARD ON DUTY, AND NEVER SWIM ALONE OR AT NIGHT. A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS MEANS DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING CONDITIONS EXIST FOR ALL PEOPLE ENTERING THE SURF. LIFE GUARDS ARE REPORTING DANGEROUS CONDITIONS EXISTING IN THE SURF. AN ENHANCED RISK OF RIP CURRENTS IS ANTICIPATED TO CONTINUE RIGHT INTO THE WEEKEND. $$ GORSE
Nearby
Coastal Flood Statements in New Jersey, 2008Coastal Flood Statements in Delaware, 2008Every coastal flood statement in 2008
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.