Alert archive / New Jersey / Coastal Flood Statements in 2012
Coastal Flood Statement 11, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this coastal flood statement at May 17, 2012, 9:55 PM EDT for Delaware County, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; Burlington County, Camden County, Gloucester County, New Jersey. It took effect at May 17, 2012, 10:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 103 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 2012, 9:55 PM EDT (01:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 17, 2012, 10:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- May 17, 2012, 11:43 PM EDT
- In force
- 103 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Delaware County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 217 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2749 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
061 WHUS41 KPHI 180155 CFWPHI COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 955 PM EDT THU MAY 17 2012 NJZ017>019-PAZ070-071-180700- /O.NEW.KPHI.CF.S.0011.120518T0200Z-120518T0700Z/ GLOUCESTER-CAMDEN-NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON-DELAWARE-PHILADELPHIA- 955 PM EDT THU MAY 17 2012 ...SPOTTY LOW-END MINOR TIDAL FLOODING ALONG THE TIDAL DELAWARE RIVER TONIGHT... * LOCATION...FROM NEAR MARCUS HOOK TO NEAR BURLINGTON. * COASTAL FLOODING...SPOTTY AND LOW END MINOR TIDAL FLOODING. * TIMING...FROM AROUND 10 PM TO AROUND 230 AM. HIGH TIDE AT PHILADELPHIA IS AT 1225 AM. * IMPACTS...ONLY THE MOST FLOOD-PRONE AREAS WILL SEE MINOR FLOODING. $$ MPD
1 follow-up statement
322 WHUS41 KPHI 180343 CFWPHI COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1143 PM EDT THU MAY 17 2012 NJZ017>019-PAZ070-071-180445- /O.CAN.KPHI.CF.S.0011.000000T0000Z-120518T0700Z/ GLOUCESTER-CAMDEN-NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON-DELAWARE-PHILADELPHIA- 1143 PM EDT THU MAY 17 2012 ...THIS STATEMENT CANCELS THE POSSIBILITY OF SPOTTY LOW END MINOR FLOODING... * LOCATION...FROM NEAR MARCUS HOOK TO NEAR BURLINGTON. TIDAL DEPARTURES WERE DECREASING RAPIDLY THROUGH 1130 PM AND NO TIDAL FLOODING IS EXPECTED. $$ DRAG
Nearby
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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.