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Rip Current Statement 3, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

September 5, 2015Sussex County, Delaware; 4 counties in New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this rip current statement at Sep 5, 2015, 3:58 AM EDT for Sussex County, Delaware; 4 counties in New Jersey. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 5, 2015, 3:58 AM EDT (07:58 UTC)
Expired: Sep 5, 2015, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Sussex County, DE, Atlantic County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:59 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

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 1058 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 809 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 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.

415 
WHUS41 KPHI 050758
CFWPHI

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
358 AM EDT SAT SEP 5 2015

DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-060000-
/O.NEW.KPHI.RP.S.0003.150905T0758Z-150906T0000Z/
DELAWARE BEACHES-EASTERN MONMOUTH-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-
COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN-
358 AM EDT SAT SEP 5 2015

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK. IT IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING.

* TIMING...A NORTHEAST TO EAST WIND AT 10 TO 20 MPH ALONG WITH AN
  EASTERLY SWELL AND WAVE HEIGHTS IN THE 4 TO 6 FOOT RANGE WILL
  CREATE HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS AT THE NEW JERSEY SHORE AND AT THE
  DELAWARE BEACHES INTO THIS EVENING.

* IMPACTS...THERE IS A HIGH RISK FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF DANGEROUS
  RIP CURRENTS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS IMPLIES THAT WIND AND/OR WAVE
CONDITIONS WILL SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF VERY STRONG RIP
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.

&&

$$

IOVINO

1 follow-up statement

800 
WHUS41 KPHI 052003
CFWPHI

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
403 PM EDT SAT SEP 5 2015

DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-060000-
/O.CON.KPHI.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-150906T0000Z/
DELAWARE BEACHES-EASTERN MONMOUTH-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-
COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN-
403 PM EDT SAT SEP 5 2015

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS
EVENING...

* LOCATION...AT THE NEW JERSEY SHORE AND DELAWARE BEACHES. 

* TIMING...THROUGH THIS EVENING.

* IMPACTS...A NORTHEAST TO EAST WIND AT 10 TO 20 MPH, AN EASTERLY
  SWELL AND ROUGH SURF WITH WAVE HEIGHTS IN THE 5 TO 8 FOOT RANGE
  WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE A HIGH RISK FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF
  DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS IMPLIES THAT WIND AND/OR WAVE
CONDITIONS WILL SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF VERY STRONG RIP
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.

&&

$$

Nearby

Rip Current Statements in New Jersey, 2015 Rip Current Statements in Delaware, 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.