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Coastal Flood Statement 33, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

September 29, 20084 counties in New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this coastal flood statement at Sep 29, 2008, 6:40 AM EDT for 4 counties in New Jersey. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 29, 2008, 6:40 AM EDT (10:40 UTC)
Expired: Sep 29, 2008, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Atlantic County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:43 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 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 283 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 673 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 11 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 
WHUS41 KPHI 291040
CFWPHI

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
640 AM EDT MON SEP 29 2008


NJZ014-024>026-292200-
/O.NEW.KPHI.CF.S.0033.080929T1040Z-080929T2200Z/
EASTERN MONMOUTH-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-COASTAL ATLANTIC-
COASTAL OCEAN-
640 AM EDT MON SEP 29 2008

...MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS FOR TODAY...

LINGERING SWELLS ASSOCIATED WITH, WHAT WAS ONCE, HURRICANE KYLE,
WILL REMAIN OVER THE COASTAL WATERS OF NEW JERSEY TODAY. SWELLS
SHOULD SLOWLY DIMINISH BY TONIGHT. 

MOST BEACHES ARE UNGUARDED THIS LATE IN THE SEASON, YOU MAY BE ABLE
TO FIND SOME BEACH PATROLS THOUGH. THEY CAN GUIDE YOU TO AREAS
THAT HAVE LESSER DANGER FROM RIP CURRENTS. IF YOU DECIDE TO GO IN
THE WATER, DO NOT SWIM ALONE OR AT NIGHT. KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON
INEXPERIENCED SWIMMERS AND SMALL CHILDREN.

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 28, 8:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Middlesex	117 min
Sep 28, 9:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Monmouth	116 min
Sep 28, 11:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Monmouth	3 hr

Nearby

Coastal Flood Statements in New Jersey, 2008 Every 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.