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Coastal Flood Warning 1, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this coastal flood warning at Feb 21, 2026, 2:45 PM EST for 6 counties in New Jersey; Kent County, Sussex County, Delaware. It took effect at Feb 22, 2026, 9:00 PM EST. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 21, 2026, 2:45 PM EST (19:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 22, 2026, 9:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2026, 4:46 AM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Kent County, DE, Sussex County, DE, Atlantic County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Middlesex County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 763 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 123 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this coastal flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly wrote its last area forecast discussion before this coastal flood warning went out at Feb 21, 12:51 PM EST, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 21, 12:51 PM EST, 1 hour 54 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 21, 5:49 AM EST, 8 hours 56 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 549 AM EST Sat Feb 21 2026 MDZ012-015-019-020-221100- Kent MD-Queen Annes-Talbot-Caroline- 549 AM EST Sat Feb 21 2026 ...WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northeast Maryland. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Winter Storm Watch. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather spotters are encouraged to report significant weather conditions according to standard operating procedures. Staarmann
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 2:36 AM EST | Storm Watch | PHI | 12 hr | |
| Feb 21, 3:27 AM EST | Blizzard Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 10 more | 58 hr |
| Feb 21, 3:27 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer and 6 more | 58 hr |
| Feb 21, 2:23 PM EST | Gale Warning | PHI | 51 hr | |
| Feb 21, 2:23 PM EST | Storm Warning | PHI | 47 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.