Alert archive / New Jersey / Rip Current Statements in 2017
Rip Current Statement 14, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this rip current statement at Sep 23, 2017, 3:35 PM EDT for 4 counties in New Jersey; Sussex County, Delaware. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 23, 2017, 3:35 PM EDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 23, 2017, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 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 19:32 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, 7.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1352 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
684 WHUS41 KPHI 231935 CFWPHI COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE FOR PA...NJ...DE...AND MD NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 335 PM EDT SAT SEP 23 2017 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-240100- /O.NEW.KPHI.RP.S.0014.170923T1935Z-170924T0100Z/ DELAWARE BEACHES-EASTERN MONMOUTH-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY- COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN- 335 PM EDT SAT SEP 23 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...THE BEACHES OF NEW JERSEY AND DELAWARE. * RISK OF RIP CURRENTS...HIGH. * SURF HEIGHT...4 TO 6 FEET. * TIMING AND TIDES...THROUGH THE EVENING. LOW TIDES ALONG THE OCEAN FRONT WILL BE BETWEEN 4:30 PM AND 5:30 PM. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. IF CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT, RELAX AND FLOAT. DON'T SWIM AGAINST THE CURRENT. IF ABLE, SWIM IN A DIRECTION FOLLOWING THE SHORELINE. IF UNABLE TO ESCAPE, FACE THE SHORE AND CALL OR WAVE FOR HELP. && $$
1 follow-up statement
681 WHUS41 KPHI 240048 CFWPHI COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE FOR PA...NJ...DE...AND MD NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 848 PM EDT SAT SEP 23 2017 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-240200- /O.EXP.KPHI.RP.S.0014.000000T0000Z-170924T0100Z/ DELAWARE BEACHES-EASTERN MONMOUTH-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY- COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN- 848 PM EDT SAT SEP 23 2017 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... A MODERATE RISK FOR THE FORMATION OF DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS RIP CURRENTS IS EXPECTED ON SUNDAY, BUT MAY APPROACH A HIGH RISK FOR SOME AREAS AT TIMES. A HIGH RISK IS EXPECTED FOR MOST OF NEXT WEEK AS SWELLS FROM HURRICANE MARIA AFFECT THE AREA. $$
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in New Jersey, 2017Rip Current Statements in Delaware, 2017Every rip current statement in 2017
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.