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Coastal Flood Watch 1, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

January 1, 20147 counties in New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this coastal flood watch at Jan 1, 2014, 2:49 PM EST for 7 counties in New Jersey. It took effect at Jan 3, 2014, 5:00 AM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 1, 2014, 2:49 PM EST (19:49 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 3, 2014, 5:00 AM EST
Expired: Jan 2, 2014, 2:37 PM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties 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), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:53 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, 7.8 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1232 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 97 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -18 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 coastal flood watch 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 coastal flood watch went out at Jan 1, 10:33 AM EST, 4 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 1, 10:33 AM EST, 4 hours 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 1, 4:10 AM EST, 10 hours 39 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 1, 3:38 AM EST	Gale Watch	PHI		12 hr
Jan 1, 3:53 AM EST	Winter Storm Watch	PHI	Morris, Sussex, Warren	11 hr
Jan 1, 2:35 PM EST	Winter Storm Watch	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Hunterdon and 6 more	13 hr
Jan 1, 2:35 PM EST	Winter Storm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 10 more	46 hr
Jan 1, 3:39 PM EST	Gale Warning	PHI		48 hr

Nearby

Coastal Flood Watches in New Jersey, 2014 Every coastal flood watch in 2014

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.