Alert archive / New Jersey / Rip Current Statements in 2019
Rip Current Statement 7, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this rip current statement at Sep 1, 2019, 8:32 PM EDT for 4 counties in New Jersey; Sussex County, Delaware. It took effect at Sep 2, 2019, 5:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 1, 2019, 8:32 PM EDT (00:32 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 2, 2019, 5:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2019, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 16 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 00:36 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
- 367 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 712 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted.
133 WHUS41 KPHI 020032 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 832 PM EDT Sun Sep 1 2019 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-021345- /O.NEW.KPHI.RP.S.0007.190902T0900Z-190903T0100Z/ Delaware Beaches-Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May- Coastal Atlantic-Coastal Ocean- 832 PM EDT Sun Sep 1 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 5 AM EDT MONDAY THROUGH MONDAY EVENING... The National Weather Service in Mount Holly has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect from 5 AM EDT Monday through Monday evening. * LOCATIONS...In New Jersey, Eastern Monmouth, Atlantic Coastal Cape May, Coastal Atlantic and Coastal Ocean. In Delaware, Delaware Beaches. * TIMING...From 5 AM EDT Monday through Monday 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. && $$ SFJ
1 follow-up statement
093 WHUS41 KPHI 020734 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 334 AM EDT Mon Sep 2 2019 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-030100- /O.CON.KPHI.RP.S.0007.190902T0900Z-190903T0100Z/ Delaware Beaches-Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May- Coastal Atlantic-Coastal Ocean- 334 AM EDT Mon Sep 2 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * LOCATIONS...In New Jersey, Coastal Ocean, Atlantic Coastal Cape May, Eastern Monmouth and Coastal Atlantic. In Delaware, Delaware Beaches. * TIMING...Through this evening. * SURF ZONE IMPACTS...Very strong rip currents will be dangerous to anyone who enters the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ MPS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 12:05 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 40 min | |
| Sep 2, 12:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monmouth | 16 min |
| Sep 2, 12:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Somerset | 40 min |
| Sep 2, 1:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris | 45 min |
| Sep 2, 1:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer | 29 min |
| Sep 2, 1:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Union | 19 min |
| Sep 2, 2:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monmouth | 44 min |
| Sep 2, 4:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monmouth | 17 min |
| Sep 2, 4:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth | 78 min |
| Sep 2, 5:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 44 min |
| Sep 2, 5:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 5:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 48 min |
| Sep 2, 6:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington | 44 min |
| Sep 2, 6:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Ocean | 2 hr |
| Sep 2, 6:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 41 min |
| Sep 2, 6:52 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 113 min |
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.