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Rip Current Statement 8, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

September 22, 20144 counties in New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this rip current statement at Sep 22, 2014, 10:16 AM EDT for 4 counties in New Jersey. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 22, 2014, 10:16 AM EDT (14:16 UTC)
Expired: Sep 22, 2014, 5:48 PM EDT
In force: 8 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 14:17 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

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 1361 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

699 
WHUS41 KPHI 221416
CFWPHI

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1016 AM EDT MON SEP 22 2014

NJZ014-024>026-230200-
/O.NEW.KPHI.RP.S.0008.140922T1416Z-140923T0200Z/
EASTERN MONMOUTH-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-COASTAL ATLANTIC-
COASTAL OCEAN-
1016 AM EDT MON SEP 22 2014

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING.

* LOCATION...THE NEW JERSEY SHORE. 

* RISK OF RIP CURRENTS...HIGH

* SURF HEIGHT... 4 TO 6 FEET. 

* TIMING AND TIDES...TODAY AND TONIGHT.


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

110 
WHUS41 KPHI 222148
CFWPHI

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
548 PM EDT MON SEP 22 2014

NJZ014-024>026-222300-
/O.CAN.KPHI.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-140923T0200Z/
EASTERN MONMOUTH-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-COASTAL ATLANTIC-
COASTAL OCEAN-
548 PM EDT MON SEP 22 2014

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS CANCELLED THE
HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK FOR THE NEW JERSEY SHORE.

SOUTHEAST SWELLS HAVE DECREASED AT LEAST 1.5 FEET FROM MIDDAY AND
SO WHILE DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS CAN STILL FORM...THE THREAT HAS
LESSENED THIS EVENING.

THE NEXT HIGH RISK FOR THE FORMATION OF DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS
MAY ARRIVE LATE WEDNESDAY OR THURSDAY AS A PERSISTENT AND FAIRLY
STRONG EAST TO NORTHEAST FLOW DEVELOPS.

$$

DRAG

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.