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Rip Current Statement 5, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this rip current statement at Jun 25, 2024, 5:01 PM EDT for 4 counties in New Jersey. It took effect at Jun 26, 2024, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 2024, 5:01 PM EDT (21:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 26, 2024, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2024, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Atlantic County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 1711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
631 WHUS41 KPHI 252101 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 501 PM EDT Tue Jun 25 2024 NJZ014-024>026-261015- /O.NEW.KPHI.RP.S.0005.240626T1200Z-240627T0000Z/ Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May-Coastal Atlantic- Coastal Ocean- 501 PM EDT Tue Jun 25 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Eastern Monmouth, Atlantic Coastal Cape May, Coastal Atlantic and Coastal Ocean. * WHEN...From Wednesday morning through Wednesday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
234 WHUS41 KPHI 260815 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 415 AM EDT Wed Jun 26 2024 NJZ014-024>026-262115- /O.CON.KPHI.RP.S.0005.240626T1200Z-240627T0000Z/ Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May-Coastal Atlantic- Coastal Ocean- 415 AM EDT Wed Jun 26 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Eastern Monmouth, Atlantic Coastal Cape May, Coastal Atlantic and Coastal Ocean. * WHEN...From 8 AM EDT this morning through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
236 WHUS41 KPHI 262051 CFWPHI Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 451 PM EDT Wed Jun 26 2024 NJZ014-024>026-270000- /O.CON.KPHI.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-240627T0000Z/ Eastern Monmouth-Atlantic Coastal Cape May-Coastal Atlantic- Coastal Ocean- 451 PM EDT Wed Jun 26 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Eastern Monmouth, Atlantic Coastal Cape May, Coastal Atlantic and Coastal Ocean. * WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2:50 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth and 2 more | 42 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:20 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | PHI | 48 hr |
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.