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Coastal Flood Advisory 16, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 7, 20168 counties in New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this coastal flood advisory at May 7, 2016, 12:50 AM EDT for 8 counties in New Jersey. It took effect at May 7, 2016, 7:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 7, 2016, 12:50 AM EDT (04:50 UTC)
In effect from: May 7, 2016, 7:00 PM EDT
Expired: May 8, 2016, 3:00 AM EDT
In force: 8 hr
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, Salem County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:51 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 198 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: 566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 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 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 coastal flood advisory went out at May 7, 12:34 AM EDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 12:34 AM EDT, 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 7, 12:38 AM EDT, 12 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
May 7, 4:12 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	PHI		11 hr
May 7, 3:38 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	PHI		27 hr

Nearby

Coastal Flood Advisories in New Jersey, 2016 Every coastal 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.