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Areal Flood Advisory 362, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 21, 2014Sussex County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this areal flood advisory at Aug 21, 2014, 7:44 PM EDT for Sussex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 21, 2014, 7:44 PM EDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired
Aug 21, 2014, 11:45 PM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Sussex County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 156 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 12:00Z on 2014-08-21Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2014-08-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1296 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood advisory went out at Aug 21, 6:45 PM EDT, 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 6:45 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 21, 5:43 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
543 PM EDT THU AUG 21 2014

DEZ003-212245-
INLAND SUSSEX DE-
543 PM EDT THU AUG 21 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT WEST CENTRAL SUSSEX COUNTY...

AT 534 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST NORTH OF LAUREL...
MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.

RADAR ESTIMATES BETWEEN 2 AND 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN FROM
THIS STORM WITHIN THE PAST HOUR.

VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. THE RAIN CAN CAUSE RAPID
RISES ON SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR LAUREL AROUND 550 PM.

LAT...LON 3851 7545 3851 7566 3866 7566 3866 7550

FORECASTER: AMC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 21, 6:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISussex59 min
Aug 21, 7:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISussex49 min

Nearby

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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.