Alert archive / New Jersey / Coastal Flood Statements in 2012
Coastal Flood Statement 21, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this coastal flood statement at Jul 5, 2012, 3:53 PM EDT for 7 counties in New Jersey; Kent County, Sussex County, Delaware. It took effect at Jul 5, 2012, 9:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2012, 3:53 PM EDT (19:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 5, 2012, 9:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2012, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Kent County, DE, Sussex County, DE, Atlantic County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ, Middlesex County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 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
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 1069 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1960 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
086 WHUS41 KPHI 051953 CFWPHI COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 353 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2012 DEZ002>004-NJZ012>014-020>027-060500- /O.NEW.KPHI.CF.S.0021.120706T0100Z-120706T0500Z/ KENT-INLAND SUSSEX-DELAWARE BEACHES-MIDDLESEX-WESTERN MONMOUTH- EASTERN MONMOUTH-OCEAN-CUMBERLAND-ATLANTIC-CAPE MAY- ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN- SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON- 353 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2012 ...SPOTTY MINOR TIDAL FLOODING TONIGHT... WITH THE VERY HIGH ASTRONOMICAL TIDES ASSOCIATED WITH THE FULL MOON AND WITH SLIGHTLY POSITIVE TIDAL DEPARTURES CONTINUING, THERE MAY BE SOME SPOTTY MINOR TIDAL FLOODING AROUND THE TIME OF TONIGHT'S HIGH TIDE. HIGH TIDE OCCURS BETWEEN 930 PM AND 1030 PM ALONG THE NEW JERSEY AND DELAWARE OCEANFRONT. HIGH TIDE ON THE BACK BAYS, ALONG DELAWARE BAY AND ALONG RARITAN BAY OCCURS LATER THAN THE HIGH TIDE ON THE OCEANFRONT. $$ IOVINO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 10:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer | 37 min |
| Jul 4, 10:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 38 min |
| Jul 4, 11:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Ocean | 29 min |
| Jul 4, 11:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer | 46 min |
| Jul 5, 12:08 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington, Mercer | 37 min |
| Jul 5, 12:34 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 41 min |
| Jul 5, 12:35 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 40 min |
| Jul 5, 1:00 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 51 min | |
| Jul 5, 1:15 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic, Ocean | 60 min |
| Jul 5, 1:39 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cape May, Cumberland | 66 min |
| Jul 5, 4:28 AM EDT | Excessive Heat Watch | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland, Salem | 24 hr |
Nearby
Coastal Flood Statements in New Jersey, 2012Coastal Flood Statements in Delaware, 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.