Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 2009
Flash Flood Warning 62, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Sep 11, 2009, 3:06 AM EDT for Cape May County, New Jersey. It was in force for 4 hr. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 11, 2009, 3:06 AM EDT (07:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2009, 7:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Cape May County, NJ
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:09 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 4:10 AM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Cape May, NJ | STREET FLOODING ON BEACH DRIVE. |
| Sep 11, 4:10 AM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Wildwood, NJ | STREET FLOODING |
| Sep 11, 4:45 AM EDT | FLOOD | Villas, NJ | BAYSHORE RD AND TENNESSEE AVE FLOODED OUT. |
| Sep 11, 5:25 AM EDT | FLOOD | Rio Grande, NJ | ROUTE 47 HAS SEVERE FLOODING. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 515 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS51 KPHI 110706
FFWPHI
NJC009-111100-
/O.NEW.KPHI.FF.W.0062.090911T0706Z-090911T1100Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
306 AM EDT FRI SEP 11 2009
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CAPE MAY COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CAPE MAY...
* UNTIL 700 AM EDT
* AT 303 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH TORRENTIAL RAINS ABOUT TO MOVE OVER
CAPE MAY COUNTY. PREVIOUS RAINFALL AND THE FACT THAT THE HIGH TIDE
OCCURRED RECENTLY MEANS THAT THE WATER WILL DRAIN AWAY SLOWLY.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SEAVILLE...
SCOTCH BONNET...GREEN CREEK...GOSHEN...DENNISVILLE...WOODBINE...
WILDWOOD CREST...WILDWOOD...STONE HARBOR...SEA ISLE CITY...RIO
GRANDE...NORTH WILDWOOD...NORTH CAPE MAY...CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE AND
AVALON
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 3899 7498 3911 7490 3915 7490 3916 7492
3924 7486 3924 7461 3912 7470 3910 7470
3907 7471 3902 7479 3899 7479 3893 7488
3892 7497
$$
POThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 2:20 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 85 min | |
| Sep 11, 2:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May | 72 min |
| Sep 11, 3:07 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Middlesex, Monmouth and 2 more | 12 hr |
| Sep 11, 3:25 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 95 min | |
| Sep 11, 3:44 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 95 min | |
| Sep 11, 3:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May, Cumberland | 65 min |
| Sep 11, 4:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May, Cumberland | 65 min |
| Sep 11, 5:05 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 115 min | |
| Sep 11, 5:17 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 88 min | |
| Sep 11, 5:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland | 69 min |
| Sep 11, 5:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland | 53 min |
| Sep 11, 6:12 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland | 2 hr |
| Sep 11, 6:39 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 96 min | |
| Sep 11, 6:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland | 86 min |
| Sep 11, 6:59 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Cape May | 3 hr |
| Sep 11, 8:18 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland | 117 min |
| Sep 11, 8:31 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem | 119 min |
| Sep 11, 8:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth | 39 min |
| Sep 11, 8:58 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May, Monmouth, Ocean | 35 hr |
| Sep 11, 9:02 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | PHI | Monmouth, Ocean | 3 hr |
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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.