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Rip Current Statement 2, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 4, 2015Cape May County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this rip current statement at Aug 4, 2015, 10:53 AM EDT for Cape May County, New Jersey. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 4, 2015, 10:53 AM EDT (14:53 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2015, 3:18 PM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Cape May County, NJ

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 1672 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1264 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

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

217 
WHUS41 KPHI 041453
CFWPHI

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1053 AM EDT TUE AUG 4 2015

NJZ024-042000-
/O.NEW.KPHI.RP.S.0002.150804T1453Z-150804T2000Z/
ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-
1053 AM EDT TUE AUG 4 2015

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EDT THIS
AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON. 

* TIMING...THERE IS A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK THIS MORNING INTO THE
  AFTERNOON. THE THREAT IS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH TO MODERATE LATER
  TODAY.

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

467 
WHUS41 KPHI 041918
CFWPHI

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
318 PM EDT TUE AUG 4 2015

NJZ024-042030-
/O.CAN.KPHI.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-150804T2000Z/
ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-
318 PM EDT TUE AUG 4 2015

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

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

HOWEVER, THERE REMAINS A MODERATE RISK FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF
DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS THROUGH THE BALANCE OF THE DAY.

$$

IOVINO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 2:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset	53 min
Aug 4, 2:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Morris, Warren	60 min
Aug 4, 2:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset	64 min
Aug 4, 3:33 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		57 min
Aug 4, 3:36 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Morris	24 min
Aug 4, 4:12 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Gloucester	63 min
Aug 4, 4:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Gloucester, Salem	33 min
Aug 4, 5:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monmouth	65 min

Nearby

Rip Current Statements in New Jersey, 2015 Every rip current statement in 2015

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.