Alert archive / New Jersey / Coastal Flood Statements in 2011

Coastal Flood Statement 7, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

February 18, 2011Middlesex County, Monmouth County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this coastal flood statement at Feb 18, 2011, 6:02 AM EST for Middlesex County, Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 18, 2011, 6:02 AM EST (11:02 UTC)
Expired: Feb 18, 2011, 9:00 AM EST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Middlesex County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:06 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1640 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 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.

428 
WHUS41 KPHI 181102
CFWPHI

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
602 AM EST FRI FEB 18 2011

NJZ012>014-181400-
/O.NEW.KPHI.CF.S.0007.110218T1102Z-110218T1400Z/
MIDDLESEX-WESTERN MONMOUTH-EASTERN MONMOUTH-
602 AM EST FRI FEB 18 2011

TIDES RUNNING ABOUT THREE-QUARTERS OF A FOOT ABOVE PREDICTED...
COMBINED WITH HIGH ASTRONOMICAL TIDES ASSOCIATED WITH THE FULL MOON...
COULD BRING SOME PLACES CLOSE TO THE MINOR TIDAL FLOODING
BENCHMARK AROUND THE TIME OF HIGH TIDE THIS MORNING.

HIGH TIDE OCCURS SHORTLY AFTER 700 AM ON THE OCEAN FRONT...AND UP
TO TWO HOURS LATER IN THE BACK BAYS. AT THIS TIME...IT APPEARS
THAT ONLY THE MOST SUSCEPTIBLE AREAS MAY BE AFFECTED DURING THE
HIGH TIDE CYCLE THIS MORNING.

$$

HAYES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 18, 3:11 AM EST	Gale Warning	PHI		18 hr
Feb 18, 3:40 AM EST	Fire Weather Watch	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 3 more	12 hr
Feb 18, 3:03 PM EST	High Wind Watch	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 10 more	6 hr
Feb 18, 3:29 PM EST	Low Water Advisory	PHI		31 hr
Feb 18, 3:30 PM EST	Red Flag Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 3 more	29 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.