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Rip Current Statement 5, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this rip current statement at Aug 24, 2019, 8:38 PM EDT for 4 counties in New Jersey. It took effect at Aug 25, 2019, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2019, 8:38 PM EDT (00:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 25, 2019, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2019, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Atlantic County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1382 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
838 WHUS41 KPHI 250038 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 838 PM EDT Sat Aug 24 2019 NJZ014-024>026-251345- /O.NEW.KPHI.RP.S.0005.190825T1200Z-190826T0000Z/ Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May-Coastal Atlantic- Coastal Ocean- 838 PM EDT Sat Aug 24 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT SUNDAY THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... The National Weather Service in Mount Holly has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect from 8 AM EDT Sunday through Sunday evening. * LOCATIONS...Eastern Monmouth, Atlantic Coastal Cape May, Coastal Atlantic and Coastal Ocean. * TIMING...From 8 AM EDT Sunday through Sunday evening. * SURF ZONE IMPACTS...Very strong rip currents will be dangerous to anyone who enters the surf. 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. && $$ Staarmann
1 follow-up statement
203 WHUS41 KPHI 250928 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 528 AM EDT Sun Aug 25 2019 NJZ014-024>026-260000- /O.CON.KPHI.RP.S.0005.190825T1200Z-190826T0000Z/ Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May-Coastal Atlantic- Coastal Ocean- 528 AM EDT Sun Aug 25 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * LOCATIONS...The New Jersey Shore. * TIMING...Through this evening. * SURF ZONE IMPACTS...Very strong rip currents will be dangerous to anyone who enters the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ CS
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.