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Areal Flood Advisory 134, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 20, 2016Middlesex County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this areal flood advisory at Aug 20, 2016, 4:21 PM EDT for Middlesex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 20, 2016, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 20, 2016, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Middlesex County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 957 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 652 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 12 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 areal flood advisory 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 areal flood advisory went out at Aug 20, 3:59 PM EDT, 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 20, 3:59 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 20, 4:15 PM EDT, 6 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
Aug 20, 3:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Ocean	3 hr
Aug 20, 3:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Cumberland, Salem	52 min
Aug 20, 3:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Ocean	2 hr
Aug 20, 4:07 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	PHI		47 hr
Aug 20, 5:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Camden	51 min

Nearby

Areal Flood Advisories in New Jersey, 2016 Every areal flood advisory in 2016

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.