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Coastal Flood Watch 3, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

December 7, 20147 counties in New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this coastal flood watch at Dec 7, 2014, 9:12 PM EST for 7 counties in New Jersey. It took effect at Dec 9, 2014, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 7, 2014, 9:12 PM EST (02:12 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 9, 2014, 7:00 AM EST
Expired: Dec 8, 2014, 3:51 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 02:09 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 00:00Z, 2.2 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: 2006 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -27 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 Dec 7, 7:51 PM EST, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 7, 7:51 PM EST, 1 hour 21 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
Dec 7, 7:29 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	PHI		7 days
Dec 7, 9:12 PM EST	Coastal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Middlesex, Monmouth and 2 more	18 hr
Dec 8, 3:40 AM EST	Gale Warning	PHI		39 hr
Dec 8, 3:50 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren	18 hr
Dec 8, 3:51 PM EST	Coastal Flood Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Middlesex, Monmouth and 1 more	21 hr
Dec 8, 3:51 PM EST	Coastal Flood Advisory	PHI	Salem	22 hr
Dec 8, 4:08 PM EST	Flood Watch	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer and 8 more	23 hr
Dec 8, 4:18 PM EST	Wind Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean	23 hr
Dec 8, 4:21 AM EST	Winter Storm Warning	PHI	Carbon, Monroe	36 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.