Alert archive / New Jersey / Coastal Flood Statements in 2020
Coastal Flood Statement 4, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this coastal flood statement at Mar 8, 2020, 10:49 AM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 2020, 10:49 AM EDT (14:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2020, 2:38 PM EDT
- 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 14:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 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
- 2810 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
476 WHUS41 KPHI 081449 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 1049 AM EDT Sun Mar 8 2020 NJZ020-026-082100- /O.CAN.KPHI.CF.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-200308T1600Z/ /O.NEW.KPHI.CF.S.0004.200308T1449Z-200308T2100Z/ Ocean-Coastal Ocean- 1049 AM EDT Sun Mar 8 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 5 PM EDT this afternoon. * IMPACTS...Minor roadway flooding is possible. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Do not drive through flooded roadways. && $$ DEZ002>004-NJZ012>014-021>025-027-081600- /O.CAN.KPHI.CF.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-200308T1600Z/ Kent-Inland Sussex-Delaware Beaches-Middlesex-Western Monmouth- Eastern Monmouth-Cumberland-Atlantic-Cape May- Atlantic Coastal Cape May-Coastal Atlantic- Southeastern Burlington- 1049 AM EDT Sun Mar 8 2020 ...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... High tide has passed and no additional coastal flooding is expected. Therefore, the Coastal Flood Advisory has been cancelled. $$ DEZ001-NJZ016-081600- /O.CAN.KPHI.CF.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-200308T1700Z/ New Castle-Salem- 1049 AM EDT Sun Mar 8 2020 ...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... High tide is occuring now, but water levels are holding just below minor flooding thresholds. Therefore, the Coastal Flood Advisory has been cancelled. $$
1 follow-up statement
352 WHUS41 KPHI 081838 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 238 PM EDT Sun Mar 8 2020 NJZ020-026-081945- /O.CAN.KPHI.CF.S.0004.000000T0000Z-200308T2100Z/ Ocean-Coastal Ocean- 238 PM EDT Sun Mar 8 2020 ...MINOR TIDAL FLOODING HAS ENDED ON THE UPPER BARNEGAT BAY... Minor tidal flooding has ended on the Upper Barnegat Bay with the past high tide cycle. Therefore, the coastal flood statement has been cancelled. However, minor flooding is possible with the next few high tide cycles on Upper Barnegat Bay only as winds become more southerly. $$ Johnson
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 9:01 PM EST | Coastal Flood Statement | PHI | Ocean | 3 hr |
| Mar 8, 4:01 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Middlesex, Monmouth and 2 more | 7 hr |
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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.