Alert archive / New Jersey / Rip Current Statements in 2020
Rip Current Statement 2, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this rip current statement at Jun 11, 2020, 3:16 AM EDT for 4 counties in New Jersey; Sussex County, Delaware. It took effect at Jun 11, 2020, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 13 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2020, 3:16 AM EDT (07:16 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 11, 2020, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2020, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 13 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 07:16 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, 7.3 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
- 173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 911 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
421 WHUS41 KPHI 110716 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 316 AM EDT Thu Jun 11 2020 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-120100- /O.NEW.KPHI.RP.S.0002.200611T1200Z-200612T0100Z/ Delaware Beaches-Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May- Coastal Atlantic-Coastal Ocean- 316 AM EDT Thu Jun 11 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...In New Jersey, Eastern Monmouth, Atlantic Coastal Cape May, Coastal Atlantic and Coastal Ocean. In Delaware, Delaware Beaches. * WHEN...From 8 AM EDT this morning through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Entering the surf is discouraged. 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. && $$ MPS
1 follow-up statement
151 WHUS41 KPHI 120046 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 846 PM EDT Thu Jun 11 2020 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-120200- /O.EXP.KPHI.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-200612T0100Z/ Delaware Beaches-Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May- Coastal Atlantic-Coastal Ocean- 846 PM EDT Thu Jun 11 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... The risk for the formation of dangerous rip currents will decrease overnight. By Friday, the risk is expected to subside to low levels. $$ JEO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 1:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 1:59 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean | 4 hr |
| Jun 11, 2:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington, Monmouth, Ocean | 4 hr |
| Jun 11, 3:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Ocean | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 6:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 115 min |
| Jun 11, 7:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 33 min |
| Jun 11, 7:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 2 hr |
| Jun 11, 7:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Sussex | 4 hr |
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in New Jersey, 2020Rip Current Statements in Delaware, 2020Every rip current 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.