Alert archive / New Jersey / Areal Flood Advisories in 2018
Areal Flood Advisory 206, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this areal flood advisory at Aug 7, 2018, 2:24 PM EDT for Sussex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 78 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2018, 2:24 PM EDT (18:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2018, 3:42 PM EDT
- In force
- 78 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Sussex County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 1115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 982 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 7, 12:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 12:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 7, 12:19 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 7, 3:31 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and 4 more | 26 hr |
| Aug 7, 4:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 48 min |
| Aug 7, 5:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 53 min |
| Aug 7, 5:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris, Sussex | 59 min |
| Aug 7, 4:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monroe | 38 min |
| Aug 7, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monroe | 61 min |
| Aug 7, 4:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Lehigh | 57 min |
| Aug 7, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks | 58 min |
| Aug 7, 5:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Lehigh | 49 min |
| Aug 7, 6:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Lehigh | 54 min |
| Aug 7, 6:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks | 65 min |
| Aug 7, 2:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 47 min |
Nearby
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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.