Alert archive / New Jersey / Rip Current Statements in 2021
Rip Current Statement 8, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this rip current statement at Sep 16, 2021, 9:11 PM EDT for 4 counties in New Jersey; Sussex County, Delaware. It took effect at Sep 17, 2021, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 16, 2021, 9:11 PM EDT (01:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 17, 2021, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 18, 2021, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 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 01:11 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, 1.2 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
- 322 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted.
216 WHUS41 KPHI 170111 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 911 PM EDT Thu Sep 16 2021 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-171500- /O.NEW.KPHI.RP.S.0008.210917T1200Z-210919T0000Z/ Delaware Beaches-Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May- Coastal Atlantic-Coastal Ocean- 911 PM EDT Thu Sep 16 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...The New Jersey and Delaware Atlantic beaches. * WHEN...From 8 AM EDT Friday through Saturday 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. && $$ CMS
4 follow-up statements
613 WHUS41 KPHI 170647 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 247 AM EDT Fri Sep 17 2021 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-180100- /O.CON.KPHI.RP.S.0008.210917T1200Z-210919T0000Z/ Delaware Beaches-Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May- Coastal Atlantic-Coastal Ocean- 247 AM EDT Fri Sep 17 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...The New Jersey and Delaware Atlantic beaches. * WHEN...From 8 AM EDT Friday through Saturday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Entering the surf is discouraged. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
050 WHUS41 KPHI 180105 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 905 PM EDT Fri Sep 17 2021 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-181415- /O.CON.KPHI.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-210919T0000Z/ Delaware Beaches-Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May- Coastal Atlantic-Coastal Ocean- 905 PM EDT Fri Sep 17 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...The Atlantic beaches of New Jersey and Delaware. * WHEN...Through Saturday 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. && $$ CMS
756 WHUS41 KPHI 180716 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 316 AM EDT Sat Sep 18 2021 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-190000- /O.CON.KPHI.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-210919T0000Z/ Delaware Beaches-Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May- Coastal Atlantic-Coastal Ocean- 316 AM EDT Sat Sep 18 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In New Jersey, Coastal Ocean, Atlantic Coastal Cape May, Eastern Monmouth and Coastal Atlantic. In Delaware, Delaware Beaches. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Entering the surf is discouraged. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
644 WHUS41 KPHI 182341 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 741 PM EDT Sat Sep 18 2021 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-190045- /O.EXP.KPHI.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-210919T0000Z/ Delaware Beaches-Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May- Coastal Atlantic-Coastal Ocean- 741 PM EDT Sat Sep 18 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... The risk for the development of dangerous rip currents will be in the moderate category through Tuesday. Exercise caution if entering the surf. $$ 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.