Alert archive / New Jersey / Coastal Flood Statements in 2008
Coastal Flood Statement 24, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this coastal flood statement at Sep 20, 2008, 4:00 AM EDT for Sussex County, Delaware; 4 counties in New Jersey. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 20, 2008, 4:00 AM EDT (08:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 20, 2008, 11:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 7 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 08:04 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, 8.0 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
- 1058 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 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 200800 CFWPHI COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 400 AM EDT SAT SEP 20 2008 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-202030- /O.NEW.KPHI.CF.Y.0008.080920T1500Z-080920T1900Z/ /O.NEW.KPHI.CF.S.0024.080920T0800Z-080920T1500Z/ /O.NEW.KPHI.CF.S.0025.080920T1900Z-080920T2300Z/ DELAWARE BEACHES-EASTERN MONMOUTH-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY- COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN- 400 AM EDT SAT SEP 20 2008 ...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 3 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY, WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 3 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON. A NORTHEASTERLY FLOW WILL CONTINUE TODAY, WHICH WILL COMBINE WITH ASTRONOMICAL TIDES STILL RUNNING ON THE HIGHER SIDE. THIS WILL RESULT IN SOME AREAS OF MINOR TIDAL FLOODING ALONG THE COASTS OF NEW JERSEY AND DELAWARE FROM LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH ABOUT EARLY AFTERNOON. HIGH TIDE ON THE NEW JERSEY AND DELAWARE OCEANFRONT OCCURS GENERALLY BETWEEN 1130 AM AND 1230 PM. HIGH TIDE OCCURS LATER ON THE BACK BAYS. DO NOT LEAVE YOUR VEHICLE IN A LOCATION THAT IS PRONE TO TIDAL FLOODING. ALSO, DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH ANY FLOOD WATERS AS THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK IT IS. IN ADDITION, DUE TO THE NORTHEASTERLY FLOW AND ROUGH SURF, THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY. A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS MEANS THAT DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING CONDITIONS EXIST IN THE SURF. IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT EVERYONE STAY OUT OF THE SURF TODAY, ESPECIALLY SINCE MOST AREA BEACHES ARE NO LONGER STAFFED WITH LIFE GUARDS. $$ DEZ003-NJZ013-020-022-023-027-201900- /O.NEW.KPHI.CF.Y.0008.080920T1500Z-080920T1900Z/ INLAND SUSSEX-WESTERN MONMOUTH-OCEAN-ATLANTIC-CAPE MAY- SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON- 400 AM EDT SAT SEP 20 2008 ...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 3 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY, WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 3 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON. A NORTHEASTERLY FLOW WILL CONTINUE TODAY, WHICH WILL COMBINE WITH ASTRONOMICAL TIDES STILL RUNNING ON THE HIGHER SIDE. THIS WILL RESULT IN SOME AREAS OF MINOR TIDAL FLOODING ALONG THE COASTS OF NEW JERSEY AND DELAWARE FROM LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH ABOUT EARLY AFTERNOON. HIGH TIDE ON THE NEW JERSEY AND DELAWARE OCEANFRONT OCCURS GENERALLY BETWEEN 1130 AM AND 1230 PM. HIGH TIDE OCCURS LATER ON THE BACK BAYS AND INTO DELAWARE BAY. DO NOT LEAVE YOUR VEHICLE IN A LOCATION THAT IS PRONE TO TIDAL FLOODING. ALSO, DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH ANY FLOOD WATERS AS THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK IT IS. $$ GORSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 4:00 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | PHI | Sussex | 15 hr |
| Sep 20, 4:00 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 11 hr |
| Sep 20, 3:00 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | PHI | 25 hr |
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.