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Coastal Flood Statement 1, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

January 8, 20115 counties in New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this coastal flood statement at Jan 8, 2011, 9:15 AM EST for 5 counties in New Jersey. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 8, 2011, 9:15 AM EST (14:15 UTC)
Expired
Jan 8, 2011, 12:00 PM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

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

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:18 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 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 189 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2011-01-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2011-01-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
938 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
60 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.

424 
WHUS41 KPHI 081415
CFWPHI

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
915 AM EST SAT JAN 8 2011

...SPOTTY MINOR TIDAL FLOODING MAY OCCUR THIS MORNING...

.AN ONSHORE FLOW WAS CAUSING ABOVE NORMAL TIDES THIS MORNING.

NJZ013-014-020-022>027-081700-
/O.NEW.KPHI.CF.S.0001.110108T1415Z-110108T1700Z/
WESTERN MONMOUTH-EASTERN MONMOUTH-OCEAN-ATLANTIC-CAPE MAY-
ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN-
SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON-
915 AM EST SAT JAN 8 2011

...SPOTTY MINOR TIDAL FLOODING IS POSSIBLE THIS MORNING...

ISOLATED MINOR TIDAL FLOODING COULD OCCUR AROUND THE TIME OF HIGH
TIDE THIS MORNING...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE OCEAN FRONT. HIGH TIDE
ALONG THE OCEAN FRONT IS FROM 9:30 AM TO 11:00 AM THIS MORNING.
HIGH TIDE OCCURS A BIT LATER ON THE BACK BAYS.

MOVE YOUR VEHICLE FROM AREAS THAT ARE SUSCEPTIBLE TO MINOR TIDAL
FLOODING.

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 8, 3:22 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Ocean15 hr
Jan 8, 3:25 AM ESTGale WarningPHI38 hr

Nearby

Coastal Flood Statements in New Jersey, 2011Every coastal flood statement in 2011

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.