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Rip Current Statement 2, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 30, 20134 counties in New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this rip current statement at Jun 30, 2013, 5:29 AM EDT for 4 counties in New Jersey. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 30, 2013, 5:29 AM EDT (09:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2013, 8:13 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 09:32 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 266 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 716 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

930 
WHUS41 KPHI 300929
CFWPHI

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
529 AM EDT SUN JUN 30 2013

NJZ014-024>026-010300-
/O.NEW.KPHI.RP.S.0002.130630T0929Z-130701T0300Z/
EASTERN MONMOUTH-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-COASTAL ATLANTIC-
COASTAL OCEAN-
529 AM EDT SUN JUN 30 2013

...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...ALONG THE ATLANTIC COAST OF NEW JERSEY.

* RISK OF RIP CURRENTS...HIGH.

* SURF HEIGHT...4 TO 6 FEET.

* TIMING ...THE RISK OF DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS INCREASING TO HIGH
  THROUGH TODAY AND CONTINUING INTO THIS EVENING.

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. 

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. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY
ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS.

&&

$$

1 follow-up statement

202 
WHUS41 KPHI 010013
CFWPHI

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
813 PM EDT SUN JUN 30 2013

NJZ014-024>026-010115-
/O.CAN.KPHI.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-130701T0300Z/
EASTERN MONMOUTH-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-COASTAL ATLANTIC-
COASTAL OCEAN-
813 PM EDT SUN JUN 30 2013

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS CANCELLED THE
HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK.

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 12:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Gloucester	49 min
Jun 30, 1:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Camden, Gloucester	55 min
Jun 30, 1:28 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Camden, Gloucester, Salem	4 hr
Jun 30, 1:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Burlington	4 hr
Jun 30, 2:32 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Burlington	4 hr
Jun 30, 2:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Burlington	4 hr
Jun 30, 3:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Monmouth, Ocean	4 hr
Jun 30, 4:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	PHI	Gloucester	9 hr

Nearby

Rip Current Statements in New Jersey, 2013 Every rip current statement in 2013

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.