Alert archive / New Jersey / Rip Current Statements in 2012
Rip Current Statement 1, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this rip current statement at May 20, 2012, 3:29 AM EDT for 4 counties in New Jersey; Sussex County, Delaware. It took effect at May 20, 2012, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 20, 2012, 3:29 AM EDT (07:29 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 20, 2012, 6:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 20, 2012, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Sussex County, DE, Atlantic County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:32 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 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 2705 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
143 WHUS41 KPHI 200729 CFWPHI COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 329 AM EDT SUN MAY 20 2012 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-202030- /O.NEW.KPHI.RP.S.0001.120520T1000Z-120521T0300Z/ DELAWARE BEACHES-EASTERN MONMOUTH-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY- COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN- 329 AM EDT SUN MAY 20 2012 ...HIGH HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. * LOCATION...THE NEW JERSEY AND DELAWARE COASTS BORDERING THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. * RISK OF RIP CURRENTS...HIGH. * SURF HEIGHT...IN THE 4 TO 7 FEET RANGE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS IMPLIES THAT WIND AND/OR WAVE CONDITIONS WILL SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF VERY STRONG RIPS CURRENTS. THESE RIP CURRENTS WILL BE LIFE THREATENING TO ANYONE WHO ENTERS THE SURF. PLEASE USE THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW RIP CURRENT HAZARD...HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS- SURVEY.PHP?CODE=RCVTECCHM (ALL LOWER CASE). && $$ DRAG
2 follow-up statements
538 WHUS41 KPHI 201939 CFWPHI COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 339 PM EDT SUN MAY 20 2012 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-210300- /O.CON.KPHI.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-120521T0300Z/ DELAWARE BEACHES-EASTERN MONMOUTH-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY- COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN- 339 PM EDT SUN MAY 20 2012 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * LOCATION...THE NEW JERSEY AND DELAWARE COASTS BORDERING THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. * RISK OF RIP CURRENTS...HIGH. * SURF HEIGHT...IN THE 4 TO 7 FEET RANGE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS IMPLIES THAT WIND AND/OR WAVE CONDITIONS WILL SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF VERY STRONG RIPS CURRENTS. THESE RIP CURRENTS WILL BE LIFE THREATENING TO ANYONE WHO ENTERS THE SURF. PLEASE USE THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW RIP CURRENT HAZARD...HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS- SURVEY.PHP?CODE=RCVTECCHM (ALL LOWER CASE). && $$
211 WHUS41 KPHI 210030 CFWPHI COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 830 PM EDT SUN MAY 20 2012 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-210130- /O.CAN.KPHI.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-120521T0300Z/ DELAWARE BEACHES-EASTERN MONMOUTH-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY- COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN- 830 PM EDT SUN MAY 20 2012 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK. WHILE THE HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK MAY LINGER FOR AWHILE LONGER, IT HAS BEEN CANCELLED AT THIS TIME DUE TO THE ONSET OF DARKNESS. $$
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in New Jersey, 2012Rip Current Statements in Delaware, 2012Every rip current 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.