Alert archive / New Jersey / Coastal Flood Statements in 2021
Coastal Flood Statement 3, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this coastal flood statement at Feb 3, 2021, 4:06 AM EST for Ocean County, New Jersey; Sussex County, Delaware. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 3, 2021, 4:06 AM EST (09:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 2021, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Sussex County, DE, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 573 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
346 WHUS41 KPHI 030906 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 406 AM EST Wed Feb 3 2021 NJZ020-026-040000- /O.EXP.KPHI.CF.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-210203T0900Z/ /O.NEW.KPHI.CF.S.0003.210203T0906Z-210204T0000Z/ Ocean-Coastal Ocean- 406 AM EST Wed Feb 3 2021 ...MINOR FLOODING CONTINUES ALONG BARNEGAT BAY... * WHAT...Up to 1 foot of inundation above ground level in low- lying areas near shorelines and tidal waterways. * WHERE...Barnegat Bay and the tidal waterways that flow into it. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Minor roadway flooding is possible. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Do not drive through flooded roadways. && $$ DEZ003-004-040000- /O.EXP.KPHI.CF.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-210203T0900Z/ /O.NEW.KPHI.CF.S.0003.210203T0906Z-210204T0000Z/ Inland Sussex-Delaware Beaches- 406 AM EST Wed Feb 3 2021 ...MINOR FLOODING CONTINUES ALONG LITTLE ASSAWOMAN BAY... * WHAT...Up to 1 foot of inundation above ground level in low- lying areas near shorelines and tidal waterways. * WHERE...Little Assawoman Bay and the tidal waterways that flow into it. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Minor roadway flooding is possible. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Do not drive through flooded roadways. && $$ NJZ012>014-022>025-027-031015- /O.EXP.KPHI.CF.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-210203T0900Z/ Middlesex-Western Monmouth-Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic-Cape May- Atlantic Coastal Cape May-Coastal Atlantic- Southeastern Burlington- 406 AM EST Wed Feb 3 2021 ...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... Northwesterly winds and a departing low pressure system have caused flood waters to recede with no additional coastal flooding anticipated. $$
1 follow-up statement
319 WHUS41 KPHI 040015 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 715 PM EST Wed Feb 3 2021 DEZ003-004-NJZ020-026-040115- /O.EXP.KPHI.CF.S.0003.000000T0000Z-210204T0000Z/ Inland Sussex-Delaware Beaches-Ocean-Coastal Ocean- 715 PM EST Wed Feb 3 2021 ...COASTAL FLOOD STATEMENT HAS EXPIRED... Minor flooding on the northern portion of Barnegat Bay and Little Assawoman Bay has ended early this evening. $$ CMS
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.