Alert archive / New Jersey / Rip Current Statements in 2017
Rip Current Statement 10, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this rip current statement at Sep 13, 2017, 1:22 PM EDT for Atlantic County, Cape May County, Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 13, 2017, 1:22 PM EDT (17:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 13, 2017, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Atlantic County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:22 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 186 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
180 WHUS41 KPHI 131722 CFWPHI COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE FOR PA...NJ...DE...AND MD NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 122 PM EDT WED SEP 13 2017 NJZ024>026-140100- /O.NEW.KPHI.RP.S.0010.170913T1722Z-170914T0100Z/ ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN- 122 PM EDT WED SEP 13 2017 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * LOCATION...PORTIONS OF THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY BEACHES. * RISK OF RIP CURRENTS...HIGH * SURF HEIGHT...3 TO 4 FEET. * HAZARD CAUSE...REPORTS OF LIFEGUARD RESPONSE TO SWELLS DURING MIDDAY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SWIM ONLY NEAR A LIFEGUARD. A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS MEANS DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING CONDITIONS EXIST FOR ALL PEOPLE ENTERING THE SURF. PEOPLE VISITING THE BEACHES SHOULD STAY OUT OF THE SURF. && $$ DRAG
1 follow-up statement
251 WHUS41 KPHI 140056 CFWPHI COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE FOR PA...NJ...DE...AND MD NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 856 PM EDT WED SEP 13 2017 NJZ024>026-140200- /O.EXP.KPHI.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-170914T0100Z/ ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN- 856 PM EDT WED SEP 13 2017 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 9:00 PM. THERE IS A MODERATE RISK FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS OVERNIGHT INTO THURSDAY. $$ IOVINO
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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.