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Coastal Flood Statement 43, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

October 2, 2011Middlesex County, Monmouth County, Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this coastal flood statement at Oct 2, 2011, 3:53 AM EDT for Middlesex County, Monmouth County, Ocean County, New Jersey. It took effect at Oct 2, 2011, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 2, 2011, 3:53 AM EDT (07:53 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 2, 2011, 11:00 AM EDT
Expired: Oct 2, 2011, 1:00 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Middlesex County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:57 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 88 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 620 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 80 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 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.

885 
WHUS41 KPHI 020753
CFWPHI

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
353 AM EDT SUN OCT 2 2011
 
NJZ012>014-020-026-021700-
/O.NEW.KPHI.CF.S.0043.111002T1500Z-111002T1700Z/
MIDDLESEX-WESTERN MONMOUTH-EASTERN MONMOUTH-OCEAN-COASTAL OCEAN-
353 AM EDT SUN OCT 2 2011

* LOCATION...COASTAL AREAS OF MIDDLESEX, MONMOUTH AND OCEAN 
  COUNTIES.  

* COASTAL FLOODING...POCKETS OF MINOR TIDAL FLOODING ARE POSSIBLE.

* TIMING...HIGH TIDE WILL BE AROUND NOON TODAY.
 
* IMPACTS...THERE IS A CHANCE FOR ROADWAY FLOODING AROUND THE TIME
  OF HIGH TIDE TODAY. IN ALL LIKELIHOOD THE FLOODING SHOULD BE
  RESTRICTED TO THE MOST VULNERABLE ROADWAYS AFFECTED BY TIDAL
  FLOODING.

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 1, 9:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Warren	57 min
Oct 1, 9:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset	112 min
Oct 1, 9:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex, Warren	2 hr
Oct 1, 11:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic, Cape May	111 min
Oct 2, 1:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Camden, Gloucester, Salem	2 hr
Oct 2, 2:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Somerset and 1 more	2 hr
Oct 2, 4:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Morris, Sussex, Warren	3 hr
Oct 2, 2:27 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem	6 hr
Oct 2, 4:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Warren	2 hr

Nearby

Coastal Flood Statements in New Jersey, 2011 Every 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.