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Coastal Flood Advisory 5, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this coastal flood advisory at Mar 4, 2018, 2:57 PM EST for 9 counties in New Jersey; Bucks County, Delaware County, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; Kent County, Sussex County, Delaware. It took effect at Mar 4, 2018, 8:00 PM EST. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 2018, 2:57 PM EST (19:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 4, 2018, 8:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2018, 2:00 PM EST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Kent County, DE, Sussex County, DE, Atlantic County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Middlesex County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ, Bucks County, PA, Delaware County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 1085 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Mar 4, 11:03 AM EST, 3 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 4, 11:03 AM EST, 3 hours 54 minutes before
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Local storm report, Mar 4, 1:17 PM EST, 1 hour 40 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 3:07 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | PHI | 3 days | |
| Mar 4, 9:56 AM EST | Coastal Flood Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean | 5 hr |
| Mar 4, 2:57 PM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Mercer | 3 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.