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Coastal Flood Statement 17, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 15, 2012Delaware County, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; Burlington County, Camden County, Gloucester County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this coastal flood statement at Jun 15, 2012, 9:26 PM EDT for Delaware County, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; Burlington County, Camden County, Gloucester County, New Jersey. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 2012, 9:26 PM EDT (01:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2012, 3:00 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
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 01:25 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 00:00Z, 1.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2012-06-16Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2012-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 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
1614 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
46 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.

583 
WHUS41 KPHI 160126
CFWPHI

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
926 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2012

NJZ017>019-PAZ070-071-160700-
/O.NEW.KPHI.CF.S.0017.120616T0126Z-120616T0700Z/
GLOUCESTER-CAMDEN-NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON-DELAWARE-PHILADELPHIA-
926 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2012

...SPOTTY MINOR TIDAL FLOODING IS POSSIBLE AROUND THE TIME OF HIGH
TIDE LATE THIS EVENING AND EARLY SATURDAY MORNING...

* LOCATION...THE TIDAL DELAWARE RIVER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.

* COASTAL FLOODING...SPOTTY MINOR TIDAL FLOODING IS POSSIBLE 
  AROUND THE TIME OF HIGH TIDE.

* TIMING...HIGH TIDE OCCURS IN PHILADELPHIA AROUND 1155 PM.

* IMPACTS...LOCATIONS MOST SUSCEPTIBLE TO TIDAL FLOODING COULD SEE
  SPOTTY ROAD CLOSURES.

$$

Nearby

Coastal Flood Statements in New Jersey, 2012Coastal Flood Statements in Pennsylvania, 2012Every coastal flood statement in 2012

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.