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WGUS71 KPHI 302146
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Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
546 PM EDT Sun Jun 30 2024

NJC019-023-027-035-302345-
/O.CON.KPHI.FF.W.0011.000000T0000Z-240630T2345Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
Hunterdon NJ-Middlesex NJ-Morris NJ-Somerset NJ-
546 PM EDT Sun Jun 30 2024

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM EDT THIS
EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN MIDDLESEX, SOUTH CENTRAL MORRIS, CENTRAL
SOMERSET AND NORTHEASTERN HUNTERDON COUNTIES...

At 546 PM EDT, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges indicated
thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1
and 2.5 inches of rain have fallen. The expected rainfall rate is
0.5 to 1.5 inches in 1 hour. Additional rainfall amounts of 0.5 to 1
inch are possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or
expected to begin shortly.

HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.

SOURCE...Radar and automated gauges.

IMPACT...Flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas,
         highways, streets, and underpasses as well as other
         drainage and low lying areas.

Some locations that may experience flash flooding include...
  New Brunswick, Somerville, Somerset, Edison, Bridgewater,
  Carteret, Middlesex, Bound Brook, Manville, High Bridge, Clinton
  and Peapack And Gladstone.

This includes the following highways...
New Jersey Turnpike near exit 13.
Interstate 287 in New Jersey between mile markers 1 and 28.
Interstate 78 in New Jersey between mile markers 16 and 42.
Garden State Parkway between mile markers 130 and 134.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Turn around...don`t drown when encountering flooded roads. Most
flood deaths occur in vehicles.

&&

LAT...LON 4071 7441 4067 7446 4066 7445 4066 7441
      4063 7442 4060 7446 4061 7431 4059 7429
      4060 7426 4059 7421 4050 7440 4053 7486
      4052 7503 4055 7503 4063 7495 4069 7484
      4071 7474

FLASH FLOOD...RADAR AND GAUGE INDICATED
EXPECTED RAINFALL RATE...0.5-1.5 INCHES IN 1 HOUR

$$

SFJ