Alert archive / New Jersey / Rip Current Statements in 2020
Rip Current Statement 3, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this rip current statement at Jun 15, 2020, 3:48 AM EDT for 4 counties in New Jersey; Sussex County, Delaware. It took effect at Jun 15, 2020, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 37 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2020, 3:48 AM EDT (07:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 15, 2020, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2020, 8:56 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 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 07:53 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, 7.8 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1110 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
644 WHUS41 KPHI 150748 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 348 AM EDT Mon Jun 15 2020 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-152100- /O.NEW.KPHI.RP.S.0003.200615T1200Z-200616T0100Z/ Delaware Beaches-Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May- Coastal Atlantic-Coastal Ocean- 348 AM EDT Mon Jun 15 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. && $$ Deal
4 follow-up statements
796 WHUS41 KPHI 151936 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 336 PM EDT Mon Jun 15 2020 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-160100- /O.CON.KPHI.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-200616T0100Z/ Delaware Beaches-Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May- Coastal Atlantic-Coastal Ocean- 336 PM EDT Mon Jun 15 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In New Jersey, Coastal Ocean, Atlantic Coastal Cape May, Eastern Monmouth and Coastal Atlantic. In Delaware, Delaware Beaches. * WHEN...Until 9 PM EDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Entering the surf is discouraged. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ Staarmann
592 WHUS41 KPHI 160021 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 821 PM EDT Mon Jun 15 2020 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-161330- /O.EXT.KPHI.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-200617T0100Z/ Delaware Beaches-Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May- Coastal Atlantic-Coastal Ocean- 821 PM EDT Mon Jun 15 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In New Jersey, Coastal Ocean, Atlantic Coastal Cape May, Eastern Monmouth and Coastal Atlantic. In Delaware, Delaware Beaches. * WHEN...Through Tuesday 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. && $$
024 WHUS41 KPHI 160956 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 556 AM EDT Tue Jun 16 2020 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-170100- /O.CON.KPHI.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-200617T0100Z/ Delaware Beaches-Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May- Coastal Atlantic-Coastal Ocean- 556 AM EDT Tue Jun 16 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In New Jersey, Coastal Ocean, Atlantic Coastal Cape May, Eastern Monmouth and Coastal Atlantic. In Delaware, Delaware Beaches. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Entering the surf is discouraged. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
227 WHUS41 KPHI 170056 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 856 PM EDT Tue Jun 16 2020 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-170200- /O.CAN.KPHI.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-200617T0100Z/ Delaware Beaches-Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May- Coastal Atlantic-Coastal Ocean- 856 PM EDT Tue Jun 16 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... $$
Nearby
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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.