Alert archive / New Jersey / Rip Current Statements in 2012
Rip Current Statement 9, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this rip current statement at Sep 16, 2012, 5:02 AM EDT for 4 counties in New Jersey. It took effect at Sep 16, 2012, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 16, 2012, 5:02 AM EDT (09:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 16, 2012, 6:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2012, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Atlantic County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:59 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, 9.0 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1500 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
312 WHUS41 KPHI 160902 CFWPHI COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 502 AM EDT SUN SEP 16 2012 NJZ014-024>026-170100- /O.NEW.KPHI.RP.S.0009.120916T1000Z-120917T0100Z/ EASTERN MONMOUTH-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-COASTAL ATLANTIC- COASTAL OCEAN- 502 AM EDT SUN SEP 16 2012 ...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 COASTLINE OF NEW JERSEY. * RISK OF RIP CURRENTS...HIGH. * SURF HEIGHT...3 TO 5 FEET. 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. ANYONE VISITING THE BEACHES SHOULD STAY OUT OF THE SURF, AS LIFE GUARDS ARE NO LONGER ON DUTY AT MOST BEACHES. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE, WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS, JETTIES AND PIERS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT, DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT, BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. 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). && $$
1 follow-up statement
932 WHUS41 KPHI 170045 CFWPHI COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 845 PM EDT SUN SEP 16 2012 NJZ014-024>026-170145- /O.CAN.KPHI.RP.S.0009.000000T0000Z-120917T0100Z/ EASTERN MONMOUTH-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-COASTAL ATLANTIC- COASTAL OCEAN- 845 PM EDT SUN SEP 16 2012 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK. A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS IS EXPECTED MONDAY. $$
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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.