Rough surf on the 18th along the oceanic beaches of Sussex County caused about a half dozen injuries. People were treated for neck injuries due to the pounding 3 to 4 foot surf.
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Rough surf on the 18th along the oceanic beaches of Sussex County caused about a half dozen injuries. People were treated for neck injuries due to the pounding 3 to 4 foot surf. There were also two surf rescues that day. In Dewey Beach, a male swimmer suffered a severe neck injury and had to be rescued from the water off of McKinley Street. The rough surf was caused by the flow around a high pressure system that moved into New England and the adjacent coastal waters on the 17th. The high pressure system then settled south across the region on the 18th and 19th and the waves subsided.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Aug 18, 2:30 AM EST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 330 AM EDT FRI AUG 18 2006 .SHORT TERM /TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT/... HIGH CLOUDS WERE MOVING OVER THE AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST EARLY THIS MORNING. EARLIER, PATCHY HIGH-BASED STRATOCUMULUS OR LOW ALTOCUMULUS FLITTED THROUGH THE AREA, AND THERE COULD STILL BE SOME LEFT OVER UNDERNEATH THE CIRROSTRATUS DEPICTED ON SATELLITE IMAGERY. FOR TODAY, WE EXPECT ONLY SCATTERED CUMULUS AS CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURES CONTINUE TO BE VERY HIGH. WITH THE HIGHER CLOUDS, PARTLY SUNNY SHOULD DESCRIBE THE SKY CONDITION WELL TODAY. WITH MORE CLOUDS TODAY, MOS FORECASTS TEMPERATURES A FEW DEGREES LOWER THAN YESTERDAY, IN THIS CONTINUED EAST FLOW, WHICH BECOMES SOUTHEAST THIS AFTERNOON. EVEN SO, WE HEDGED TOWARD THE HIGHER OF THE MOS NUMBERS IN VIEW OF THE TREND TO RUN HIGH IN THIS AIRMASS OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS. OTHERWISE, THE GRIDS OF THE PREVIOUS SHIFT WERE GENERALLY ACCEPTED, WITH ONLY SOME TWEAKING OF THE MAX AND MIN TEMPERATURE GRIDS, AS WELL AS THE DEWPOINTS. && .LONG TERM /SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/... WE CONTINUED THE LIKELY POPS FOR SUNDAY, AND THERE ARE SOME INDICATIONS THAT SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE STRONG SPC HAS THE AREA JUST NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF US IN SEE TEXT FOR SUNDAY. AT THIS POINT, NO ACTION WILL BE TAKEN OTHER THAN TO ADD SOME ENHANCED WORDING IN THE HE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK. THE 00Z RUN SEEMED TO BE MORE OPTIMISTIC FOR WEDNESDAY, WITH A WEAK FRONT PASSING THROUGH THE AREA TUESDAY NIGHT. THEREFORE, THE POPS WERE REDUCED TO AN INVISIBLE SLIGHT CHANCE FOR WEDNESDAY. THE HIGH APPEARS TO BUILD INTO THE AREA FOR THURSDAY, SO THE CLOUD GRIDS WERE REDUCED 20 TO 30 PERCENT WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY. && .AVIATION... GENERALLY VFR CONDITIONS AT TERMINALS. SOME PATCHY FG/STRATUS IS DRIFTING THRU KACY . THIS WILL DISSIPATE SHORTLY AFTER SUNRISE. TODAY WILL SEE SOME CIRRUS AND LATE ALTO CU MOVING INTO AREA. WINDS WILL BE LIGHT AND VARIABLE TILL A SHORT TIME AFTER SUNRISE PICKING UP FROM THE SOUTHEAST AND SLOWLY SHIFTING TO SOUTH DURING THE DAY. && .MARINE... DURING THE FORECAST PERIOD WIND SPEEDS SHOULD REMAIN BELOW 15 KNOTS FOR THE MOST PART, WITH SEAS GETTING NO HIGHER THAN ABOUT 4 FEET ON OUR OCEAN WATERS IN THE NEAR TERM AND AGAIN AROUND THE FRONTAL PASSAGE LATE ON SUNDAY. THE WIND DIRECTION SHOULD GRADUALLY SWING FROM AN EASTERLY DIRECTION TODAY TO A MORE SOUTHERLY DIRECTION TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY IN ADVANCE OF THE COLD FRONT REACHING THE MARINE AREA LATE ON SUNDAY. && .PHI WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... PA...NONE. NJ...NONE. DE...NONE. MD...NONE. MARINE...NONE. && SHORT TERM/LONG TERM.../ AVIATION/MARINE...ZEV
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 400 AM EDT FRI AUG 18 2006 ANZ430-431-450>455-DEZ001>004-MDZ008-012-015-019-020-NJZ001- 007>010-012>027-PAZ054-055-060>062-067>071-190900- DELAWARE BAY WATERS NORTH OF EAST POINT NJ TO SLAUGHTER BEACH DE- DELAWARE BAY WATERS SOUTH OF EAST POINT NJ TO SLAUGHTER BEACH DE- COASTAL WATERS FROM SANDY HOOK TO MANASQUAN INLET NJ OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM MANASQUAN INLET TO LITTLE EGG INLET NJ OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM LITTLE EGG INLET TO GREAT EGG INLET NJ OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM GREAT EGG INLET TO CAPE MAY NJ OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE MAY NJ TO CAPE HENLOPEN DE OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE HENLOPEN TO FENWICK ISLAND DE OUT 20 NM- NEW CASTLE-KENT DE-INLAND SUSSEX-DELAWARE BEACHES-CECIL-KENT MD- QUEEN ANNES-TALBOT-CAROLINE-SUSSEX-WARREN-MORRIS-HUNTERDON- SOMERSET-MIDDLESEX-WESTERN MONMOUTH-EASTERN MONMOUTH-MERCER-SALEM- GLOUCESTER-CAMDEN-NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON-OCEAN-CUMBERLAND- ATLANTIC-CAPE MAY-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-COASTAL ATLANTIC- COASTAL OCEAN-SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON-CARBON-MONROE-BERKS-LEHIGH- NORTHAMPTON-CHESTER-MONTGOMERY-BUCKS-DELAWARE-PHILADELPHIA- 400 AM EDT FRI AUG 18 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA, DELAWARE, THE NORTHERN MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE AND NEW JERSEY, EXCLUDING THE FIVE NORTHEAST COUNTIES. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATER SATURDAY NIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY EVENING. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE STRONG SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY EVENING, WITH GUSTY WINDS, HEAVY RAINS, AND COPIOUS LIGHTNING. OTHERWISE, NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high surf. Local standard time, as filed.
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