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Coastal Flood Statement 26, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 3, 2011Cape May County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this coastal flood statement at Jul 3, 2011, 10:46 PM EDT for Cape May County, New Jersey. It was in force for 74 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 2011, 10:46 PM EDT (02:46 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 2011, 12:00 AM EDT
In force
74 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Cape May County, NJ

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 137 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2011-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 462 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2011-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
462 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-121 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1523 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 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.

395 
WHUS41 KPHI 040246
CFWPHI

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1046 PM EDT SUN JUL 3 2011

...SPOTTY MINOR TIDAL FLOODING POSSIBLE UNTIL AROUND MIDNIGHT...

.TIDES ARE SLIGHTLY HIGHER THAN THE NORMALLY HIGH ASTRONOMICAL
TIDES TONIGHT.

NJZ023-024-040400-
/O.NEW.KPHI.CF.S.0026.110704T0246Z-110704T0400Z/
CAPE MAY-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-
1046 PM EDT SUN JUL 3 2011

* COASTAL FLOODING...SPOTTY MINOR TIDAL FLOODING POSSIBLE.

* TIMING...UNTIL AROUND MIDNIGHT THIS EVENING.

* IMPACTS...MINOR TIDAL INUNDATION MAY CAUSE SOME FLOODING ON
  COASTAL ROADS SUSCEPTIBLE TO MINOR TIDAL FLOODING.

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 8:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic64 min
Jul 4, 2:40 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICape May65 min

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.