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Coastal Flood Statement 13, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

September 3, 20104 counties in New Jersey; Sussex County, Delaware

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this coastal flood statement at Sep 3, 2010, 5:27 PM EDT for 4 counties in New Jersey; Sussex County, Delaware. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 3, 2010, 5:27 PM EDT (21:27 UTC)
Expired: Sep 4, 2010, 6:00 AM EDT
In force: 13 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 21:27 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

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -372 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1550 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

089 
WHUS41 KPHI 032127
CFWPHI

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
527 PM EDT FRI SEP 3 2010

 
DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-041000-
/O.NEW.KPHI.CF.S.0013.100903T2127Z-100904T1000Z/
DELAWARE BEACHES-EASTERN MONMOUTH-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-
COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN-
527 PM EDT FRI SEP 3 2010

...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS INTO TONIGHT...

WHILE THE WINDS WILL DIMINISH GRADUALLY TONIGHT AND THE ROUGH SURF
WILL START EASING, THE EFFECTS FROM EARL WILL PERSIST. ROUGH SURF
AND A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT. 
CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE DURING THE DAYLIGHT HOURS ON SATURDAY.
NEVERTHELESS, PLEASE FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS OF BEACH PATROLS AND
LIFEGUARDS IN YOUR AREA. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED TO NOT GO INTO THE OCEAN TONIGHT.
A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS MEANS THAT WIND AND/OR WAVE
CONDITIONS SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF VERY STRONG RIP CURRENTS.
THE RIP CURRENTS WILL BE VERY DANGEROUS TO ANYONE WHO ENTERS THE
SURF. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT, STAY CALM AND DO NOT
FIGHT IT. SWIM PARALLEL TO THE SHORE UNTIL YOU BREAK FREE OF THE
CURRENT THEN SWIM AT AN ANGLE AWAY FROM THE CURRENT AND TOWARD THE
SHORE. IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ESCAPE BY SWIMMING, FLOAT OR TREAD
WATER. WHEN THE CURRENT WEAKENS, SWIM AT AN ANGLE AWAY FROM THE
CURRENT TOWARD THE SHORE. IF AT ANY TIME YOU THINK THAT YOU WILL
NOT BE ABLE TO REACH THE SHORE, DRAW ATTENTION TO YOURSELF BY
CALLING OR WAVING FOR HELP.

&&


$$

TFG

1 follow-up statement

282 
WHUS41 KPHI 040020
CFWPHI

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
820 PM EDT FRI SEP 3 2010

DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-041000-
/O.CON.KPHI.CF.S.0013.000000T0000Z-100904T1000Z/
DELAWARE BEACHES-EASTERN MONMOUTH-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-
COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN-
820 PM EDT FRI SEP 3 2010

...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS OVERNIGHT...

EVEN THOUGH EARL WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE AWAY FROM THE COASTS OF
DELAWARE AND NEW JERSEY OVERNIGHT, THE SURF WILL REMAIN QUITE
ROUGH. THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS UNTIL DAYBREAK.

A DECREASING RISK OF RIP CURRENTS IS EXPECTED FOR THE WEEKEND AS
EARL RACES TO THE NORTHEAST AND AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO OUR
REGION FROM THE WEST.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS MEANS THAT WIND AND WAVE CONDITIONS
SUPPORT VERY STRONG RIP CURRENTS. THE RIP CURRENTS WILL BE VERY
DANGEROUS TO ANYONE WHO ENTERS THE SURF. PLEASE STAY OUT OF THE
WATER UNTIL CONDITIONS IMPROVE.

&&

$$

IOVINO

Nearby

Coastal Flood Statements in New Jersey, 2010 Coastal Flood Statements in Delaware, 2010 Every coastal flood statement in 2010

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.