Alert archive / New Jersey / Rip Current Statements in 2019
Rip Current Statement 1, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this rip current statement at Jun 9, 2019, 4:38 AM EDT for Atlantic County, Cape May County, Ocean County, New Jersey; Sussex County, Delaware. It took effect at Jun 9, 2019, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 2019, 4:38 AM EDT (08:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 9, 2019, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2019, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Sussex County, DE, Atlantic County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:40 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
805 WHUS41 KPHI 090838 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 438 AM EDT Sun Jun 9 2019 DEZ004-NJZ024>026-092145- /O.NEW.KPHI.RP.S.0001.190609T1200Z-190610T0200Z/ Delaware Beaches-Atlantic Coastal Cape May-Coastal Atlantic- Coastal Ocean- 438 AM EDT Sun Jun 9 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... The National Weather Service in Mount Holly has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect from 8 AM EDT this morning through this evening. * LOCATIONS...Southern and Central New Jersey shore and the Delaware beaches * TIMING...Through this evening * TIDES...Low tides will be between 7 and 8 AM and PM * SURF ZONE IMPACTS...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 high surf. * WAVES...5 to 7 feet PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
114 WHUS41 KPHI 100209 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 1009 PM EDT Sun Jun 9 2019 DEZ004-NJZ024>026-101515- /O.EXP.KPHI.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-190610T0200Z/ /O.NEW.KPHI.RP.S.0002.190610T0209Z-190611T0200Z/ Delaware Beaches-Atlantic Coastal Cape May-Coastal Atlantic- Coastal Ocean- 1009 PM EDT Sun Jun 9 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY EVENING... The National Weather Service in Mount Holly has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect through Monday evening. * LOCATIONS...New Jersey shore and the Delaware beaches * TIMING...Through Monday evening * TIDES...Low tides will be between 7 and 8 AM and PM * SURF ZONE IMPACTS...A high risk of rip currents means dangerous and potentially life threatening conditions exist for all people entering the surf. People visiting the beaches should stay out of the high surf. * WAVES...5 to 7 feet PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ NJZ014-101515- /O.NEW.KPHI.RP.S.0002.190610T0209Z-190611T0200Z/ Eastern Monmouth- 1009 PM EDT Sun Jun 9 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY EVENING... The National Weather Service in Mount Holly has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect through Monday evening. * LOCATIONS...New Jersey shore and the Delaware beaches * TIMING...Through Monday evening. * TIDES...Low tides will be between 7 and 8 AM and PM * SURF ZONE IMPACTS...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 high surf. * WAVES...5 to 7 feet 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. && $$
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in New Jersey, 2019Rip Current Statements in Delaware, 2019Every rip current statement in 2019
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.