Alert archive / New Jersey / Coastal Flood Statements in 2020
Coastal Flood Statement 2, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this coastal flood statement at Mar 7, 2020, 9:24 AM EST for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 2020, 9:24 AM EST (14:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2020, 1:05 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 716 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
662 WHUS41 KPHI 071424 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 924 AM EST Sat Mar 7 2020 NJZ020-026-072000- /O.CAN.KPHI.CF.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-200307T1500Z/ /O.NEW.KPHI.CF.S.0002.200307T1424Z-200307T2000Z/ Ocean-Coastal Ocean- 924 AM EST Sat Mar 7 2020 ...MINOR FLOODING CONTINUES ON THE UPPER BARNEGAT BAY... * WHAT...up to one foot of inundation above ground level in low- lying areas near the shoreline of the upper Barnegat Bay. * WHERE...Upper Barnegat Bay and the tidal waterways that flow into it. * WHEN...Until 3 PM EST this afternoon. * IMPACTS...Minor roadway flooding is possible. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Do not drive through flooded roadways. && $$ DEZ002>004-NJZ012>014-021>025-027-071530- /O.CAN.KPHI.CF.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-200307T1500Z/ Kent-Inland Sussex-Delaware Beaches-Middlesex-Western Monmouth- Eastern Monmouth-Cumberland-Atlantic-Cape May- Atlantic Coastal Cape May-Coastal Atlantic- Southeastern Burlington- 924 AM EST Sat Mar 7 2020 ...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... High tide has passed and no additional widespread coastal flooding is expected. Therefore the coastal flood advisory has been cancelled. $$
1 follow-up statement
362 WHUS41 KPHI 071805 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 105 PM EST Sat Mar 7 2020 NJZ020-026-071915- /O.CAN.KPHI.CF.S.0002.000000T0000Z-200307T2000Z/ Ocean-Coastal Ocean- 105 PM EST Sat Mar 7 2020 ...Coastal Flood Statement Cancelled... Water levels have dropped below minor flood thresholds on upper Barnegat Bay. Therefore the coastal flood statement has been cancelled. No additional coastal flooding is expected at this time. $$ Johnson
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 8:35 AM EST | Gale Warning | PHI | 6 hr |
Nearby
Coastal Flood Statements in New Jersey, 2020Every coastal flood statement in 2020
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.