Alert archive / New Jersey / Coastal Flood Statements in 2009
Coastal Flood Statement 5, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this coastal flood statement at Aug 29, 2009, 5:42 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
- Aug 29, 2009, 5:42 AM EDT (09:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2009, 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 09:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 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
- 1962 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 730 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WHUS41 KPHI 290942 CFWPHI COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 542 AM EDT SAT AUG 29 2009 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY... .TROPICAL STORM DANNY HAS WEAKENED TO A TROPICAL DEPRESSION BUT STILL GENERATING WAVES TOWARD THE MID ATLANTIC COAST. DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-291745- /O.NEW.KPHI.CF.S.0005.090829T0942Z-090829T2200Z/ DELAWARE BEACHES-EASTERN MONMOUTH-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY- COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN- 542 AM EDT SAT AUG 29 2009 THE RIP CURRENT RISK HAS BEEN ELEVATED THIS MORNING AS WAVES CONTINUE TO PROPAGATE NORTH AWAY FROM TROPICAL DEPRESSION DANNY. THE WAVES BREAKING ON THE BEACH TODAY WILL BE BETWEEN 4 AND 6 FEET AND SUFFICIENT TO ENHANCE THE RIP CURRENT RISK ALONG THE NEW JERSEY AND DELAWARE COASTS. NEEDLESS TO SAY...SWIM ONLY ON BEACHES GUARDED BY LIFEGUARDS...NEVER SWIM ALONE OR AT NIGHT. $$ EBERWINE
2 follow-up statements
000 WHUS41 KPHI 291250 CFWPHI COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 850 AM EDT SAT AUG 29 2009 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THROUGH TODAY... .THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL STORM DANNY COMBINED WITH A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND AN INCOMING COLD FRONT WILL ALLOW FOR ROUGH SURF ALONG THE COAST. DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-292030- /O.CON.KPHI.CF.S.0005.000000T0000Z-090829T2200Z/ DELAWARE BEACHES-EASTERN MONMOUTH-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY- COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN- 850 AM EDT SAT AUG 29 2009 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS... THE RIP CURRENT RISK IS HIGH THROUGH TODAY AS WAVES CONTINUE TO PROPAGATE TO THE COAST FROM THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL STORM DANNY. THE WAVES BREAKING ON THE BEACH TODAY WILL BE BETWEEN 4 AND 6 FEET, WHICH IS SUFFICIENT TO GREATLY ENHANCE THE RIP CURRENT RISK ALONG THE COAST. RIP CURRENTS ARE STRONG, NARROW CHANNELS OF WATER THAT FLOW OUT TO SEA. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT, REMAIN CALM. TRY TO SWIM ON A COURSE THAT IS PARALLEL TO THE BEACH UNTIL YOU GET AWAY FROM THE RIP, THEN SWIM AT AN ANGLE IN TO SHORE. DO NOT TRY TO SWIM BACK TO SHORE DIRECTLY AGAINST THE RIP, SINCE IT CAN EXHAUST THE STRONGEST SWIMMER. SWIM ONLY ON BEACHES GUARDED BY LIFEGUARDS, AND NEVER SWIM ALONE OR AT NIGHT. $$ EBERWINE/GORSE
000 WHUS41 KPHI 291940 CFWPHI COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 340 PM EDT SAT AUG 29 2009 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS CONTINUES... .EVEN THOUGH THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL STORM DANNY CONTINUES TO PULL FARTHER AWAY FROM OUR AREA, ROUGH SURF AND RIP CURRENTS WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE COAST. DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-300000- /O.EXT.KPHI.CF.S.0005.000000T0000Z-090830T0000Z/ DELAWARE BEACHES-EASTERN MONMOUTH-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY- COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN- 340 PM EDT SAT AUG 29 2009 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS CONTINUES... THE RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS HIGH AS ENHANCED WAVES CONTINUE TO PROPAGATE TO THE COAST FROM THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL STORM DANNY. THE WAVES BREAKING ON THE BEACH ARE GENERALLY BETWEEN 4 AND 6 FEET, WHICH IS SUFFICIENTLY ENHANCING THE RIP CURRENT RISK ALONG THE COAST. RIP CURRENTS ARE STRONG, NARROW CHANNELS OF WATER THAT FLOW OUT TO SEA. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT, REMAIN CALM. TRY TO SWIM ON A COURSE THAT IS PARALLEL TO THE BEACH UNTIL YOU GET AWAY FROM THE RIP, THEN SWIM AT AN ANGLE IN TO SHORE. DO NOT TRY TO SWIM BACK TO SHORE DIRECTLY AGAINST THE RIP, SINCE IT CAN EXHAUST THE STRONGEST SWIMMER. SWIM ONLY ON BEACHES GUARDED BY LIFEGUARDS, AND NEVER SWIM ALONE OR AT NIGHT. $$ GORSE
Nearby
Coastal Flood Statements in New Jersey, 2009Coastal Flood Statements in Delaware, 2009Every coastal flood statement in 2009
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.