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Rip Current Statement 2, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this rip current statement at May 26, 2022, 8:48 PM EDT for Sussex County, Delaware; 4 counties in New Jersey. It took effect at May 27, 2022, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2022, 8:48 PM EDT (00:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 27, 2022, 6:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 27, 2022, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 16 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 00:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 0.8 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
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 506 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted.
485 WHUS41 KPHI 270048 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 848 PM EDT Thu May 26 2022 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-271400- /O.CAN.KPHI.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-220527T0100Z/ /O.NEW.KPHI.RP.S.0002.220527T1000Z-220528T0200Z/ Delaware Beaches-Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May- Coastal Atlantic-Coastal Ocean- 848 PM EDT Thu May 26 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM EDT FRIDAY THROUGH FRIDAY 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 6 AM EDT Friday through Friday 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. && $$ MPS
3 follow-up statements
106 WHUS41 KPHI 270847 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 447 AM EDT Fri May 27 2022 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-272200- /O.CON.KPHI.RP.S.0002.220527T1000Z-220528T0200Z/ Delaware Beaches-Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May- Coastal Atlantic-Coastal Ocean- 447 AM EDT Fri May 27 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...In New Jersey, Coastal Ocean, Atlantic Coastal Cape May, Eastern Monmouth and Coastal Atlantic. In Delaware, Delaware Beaches. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Entering the surf is discouraged. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ Staarmann
418 WHUS41 KPHI 271354 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 954 AM EDT Fri May 27 2022 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-280200- /O.CON.KPHI.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-220528T0200Z/ Delaware Beaches-Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May- Coastal Atlantic-Coastal Ocean- 954 AM EDT Fri May 27 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * 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. && $$
630 WHUS41 KPHI 271842 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 242 PM EDT Fri May 27 2022 DEZ004-NJZ014-024>026-280200- /O.CON.KPHI.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-220528T0200Z/ Delaware Beaches-Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May- Coastal Atlantic-Coastal Ocean- 242 PM EDT Fri May 27 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...In New Jersey, Coastal Ocean, Atlantic Coastal Cape May, Eastern Monmouth and Coastal Atlantic. In Delaware, Delaware Beaches. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Entering the surf is discouraged. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 12:43 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 12 hr |
| May 27, 3:23 AM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | New Castle | 21 hr |
| May 27, 1:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 47 min |
| May 27, 2:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 30 min |
| May 27, 2:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Kent | 13 min |
| May 27, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 35 min |
| May 27, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 30 min |
| May 26, 8:50 PM EDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | PHI | 16 hr | |
| May 27, 2:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 44 min | |
| May 27, 2:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem | 47 min |
| May 27, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 45 min | |
| May 27, 3:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May | 40 min |
| May 27, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem | 47 min |
| May 27, 3:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 32 min |
| May 27, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Ocean | 46 min |
| May 27, 3:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 59 min | |
| May 27, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Monmouth, Ocean | 40 min |
| May 27, 3:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer | 24 min |
| May 27, 3:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer | 33 min |
| May 27, 3:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 9 min |
| May 27, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean and 1 more | 27 min |
| May 27, 4:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset | 35 min |
| May 27, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Middlesex, Monmouth | 12 min |
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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.