Alert archive / New Jersey / Rip Current Statements in 2019
Rip Current Statement 6, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this rip current statement at Aug 25, 2019, 8:32 PM EDT for 4 counties in New Jersey; Sussex County, Delaware. It was in force for 47 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 2019, 8:32 PM EDT (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2019, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Sussex County, DE, Atlantic County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:35 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 963 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
257 WHUS41 KPHI 260032 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 832 PM EDT Sun Aug 25 2019 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-261500- /O.NEW.KPHI.RP.S.0006.190826T0032Z-190827T0200Z/ Delaware Beaches-Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May- Coastal Atlantic-Coastal Ocean- 832 PM EDT Sun Aug 25 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...The beaches of New Jersey and Delaware. * TIMING...Through Monday evening. * SURF ZONE IMPACTS...Very strong rip currents will be a danger to anyone who enters the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Stay out of the surf. If you are ever caught in a rip current, relax and float. Do not swim against the current. If possible, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ Iovino
3 follow-up statements
474 WHUS41 KPHI 260903 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 503 AM EDT Mon Aug 26 2019 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-262300- /O.CON.KPHI.RP.S.0006.000000T0000Z-190827T0200Z/ Delaware Beaches-Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May- Coastal Atlantic-Coastal Ocean- 503 AM EDT Mon Aug 26 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * LOCATIONS...In New Jersey, Coastal Ocean, Atlantic Coastal Cape May, Eastern Monmouth and Coastal Atlantic. In Delaware, Delaware Beaches. * TIMING...Through this evening. * SURF ZONE IMPACTS...Very strong rip currents will be dangerous to anyone who enters the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Stay out of the surf. If you are ever caught in a rip current, relax and float. Do not swim against the current. If possible, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
101 WHUS41 KPHI 270115 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 915 PM EDT Mon Aug 26 2019 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-271100- /O.EXT.KPHI.RP.S.0006.000000T0000Z-190828T0000Z/ Delaware Beaches-Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May- Coastal Atlantic-Coastal Ocean- 915 PM EDT Mon Aug 26 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING... * LOCATIONS...In New Jersey, Coastal Ocean, Atlantic Coastal Cape May, Eastern Monmouth and Coastal Atlantic. In Delaware, Delaware Beaches. * TIMING...Through Tuesday evening. * SURF ZONE IMPACTS...Very strong rip currents will be dangerous to anyone who enters the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Stay out of the surf. If you are ever caught in a rip current, relax and float. Do not swim against the current. If possible, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
514 WHUS41 KPHI 270834 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 434 AM EDT Tue Aug 27 2019 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-280000- /O.CON.KPHI.RP.S.0006.000000T0000Z-190828T0000Z/ Delaware Beaches-Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May- Coastal Atlantic-Coastal Ocean- 434 AM EDT Tue Aug 27 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * LOCATIONS...In New Jersey, Coastal Ocean, Atlantic Coastal Cape May, Eastern Monmouth and Coastal Atlantic. In Delaware, Delaware Beaches. * TIMING...Through this evening. * SURF ZONE IMPACTS...Very strong rip currents will be dangerous to anyone who enters the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Stay out of the surf. If you are ever caught in a rip current, relax and float. Do not swim against the current. If possible, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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.