Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 23, 1989, 5:00 PM EDT for Passaic County, New Jersey. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 1989, 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1989, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Passaic County, NJ
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 296 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 717 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 2:34 PM EDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
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Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 5:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Middlesex, Union | 80 min |
| Jun 23, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Nassau, Queens | 85 min |
| Jun 23, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Kings | 60 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.