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Coastal Flood Advisory 34, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this coastal flood advisory at Sep 24, 2018, 4:27 AM EDT for 11 counties in New Jersey; Bucks County, Delaware County, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; Kent County, New Castle County, Sussex County, Delaware. It took effect at Sep 24, 2018, 6:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 29 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 24, 2018, 4:27 AM EDT (08:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 24, 2018, 6:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2018, 10:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Kent County, DE, New Castle County, DE, Sussex County, DE, Atlantic County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Middlesex County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ, Salem County, NJ, Bucks County, PA, Delaware County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
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 Sep 24, 4:20 AM EDT, 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 24, 4:20 AM EDT, 7 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 9:00 PM EDT | Rip Current Statement | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May, Monmouth, Ocean | 24 hr |
Nearby
Coastal Flood Advisories in New Jersey, 2018Coastal Flood Advisories in Pennsylvania, 2018Coastal Flood Advisories in Delaware, 2018Every coastal flood advisory in 2018
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.