Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Nov 10, 1990, 5:05 PM EST for Hunterdon County, Somerset County, New Jersey. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 10, 1990, 5:05 PM EST (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 1990, 9:00 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Somerset 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 760 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 577 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 836 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, Nov 10, 3:00 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes before
NJZ001-NJ005-NJ007-NJ015-NYZ014>017-110100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 300 PM EST SAT NOV 10 1990 ...THE FLOOD WATCH HAS EXPIRED...AND THE STORM IS ABOUT TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA... A STRONG MID-AUTUMN STORM THAT DEVELOPED IN THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES SATURDAY AND MOVED UP ALONG THE MIDATLANTIC COAST THIS MORNING WAS MOVING NORTHNORTHEASTWARD INTO CENTRAL NEW JERSEY AT MIDAFTERNOON. THE STORM HAS BEEN QUITE A RAIN-PRODUCER. AMOUNTS HAVE RANGED BETWEEN 1 AND 2 1/2 INCHES. THE BULK OF THE RAIN APPEARS TO BE ABOUT OVER. RADAR IMAGES SHOWED THAT THE RAIN WAS BECOMING SCATTERED...AND MOST OF IT SHOULD END FROM THE SOUTHWEST BEFORE OR BY ABOUT DARK. SOME LINGERING SCATTERED SHOWERS MAY OCCUR OVER EASTERN LONG ISLAND AS WELL AS POINTS TO THE NORTH AND NORTHWEST OF NEW YORK CITY PAST DARK. THE THREAT OF FLOODING HAS DIMINISHED WITH THE IMMINENT PASSAGE OF THE STORM. WINDS HAVE BEEN QUITE STRONG...AS THEY HAVE RUN ABOUT 15 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. GUSTS HAVE BEEN AS HIGH AS 47 MILES AN HOUR AT LAGUARDIA AIRPORT AROUND MIDDAY. AS THE CENTER OF THE STORM MOVES THROUGH NORTHERN NEW JERSEY...PROBABLY JUST WEST OF NEW YORK CITY...WINDS WILL SWITCH AROUND TO NORTHWEST THROUGHOUT THE AREA THIS EVENING AND BEGIN TO USHER IN COLDER AIR FROM THE NORTHWEST. SUN WILL MIX WITH SOME CLOUDS SUNDAY...BUT IT WILL BE WINDY AND CHILLY. ANOTHER WEAKER STORM WILL BLOW IN FROM THE NORTHWEST LATER SUNDAY AND...WITH THE COLDER TEMPERATURES...COULD GIVE US SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS SUNDAY NIGHT. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD AGAIN FOR MONDAY...BRINGING FAIR BUT CONTINUED COOL WEATHER FOR VETERAN'S DAY. THE NEXT STATEMENT REGARDING TODAY'S WEATHER WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 6 PM...OR SOONER IF CONDITIONS WARRANT. JRP
Special weather statement, Nov 10, 3:00 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes before
NJZ001-NJ005-NJ007-NJ015-NYZ014>017-110100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 300 PM EST SAT NOV 10 1990 ...CORRECTED FOR FIRST PARAGRAPH... ...THE FLOOD WATCH HAS EXPIRED...AND THE STORM IS ABOUT TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA... A STRONG MID-AUTUMN STORM THAT DEVELOPED IN THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES FRIDAY AND MOVED UP ALONG THE MIDATLANTIC COAST THIS MORNING WAS MOVING NORTHNORTHEASTWARD INTO CENTRAL NEW JERSEY AT MIDAFTERNOON. THE STORM HAS BEEN QUITE A RAIN-PRODUCER. AMOUNTS HAVE RANGED BETWEEN 1 AND 2 1/2 INCHES. THE BULK OF THE RAIN APPEARS TO BE ABOUT OVER. RADAR IMAGES SHOWED THAT THE RAIN WAS BECOMING SCATTERED...AND MOST OF IT SHOULD END FROM THE SOUTHWEST BEFORE OR BY ABOUT DARK. SOME LINGERING SCATTERED SHOWERS MAY OCCUR OVER EASTERN LONG ISLAND AS WELL AS POINTS TO THE NORTH AND NORTHWEST OF NEW YORK CITY PAST DARK. THE THREAT OF FLOODING HAS DIMINISHED WITH THE IMMINENT PASSAGE OF THE STORM. WINDS HAVE BEEN QUITE STRONG...AS THEY HAVE RUN ABOUT 15 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. GUSTS HAVE BEEN AS HIGH AS 47 MILES AN HOUR AT LAGUARDIA AIRPORT AROUND MIDDAY. AS THE CENTER OF THE STORM MOVES THROUGH NORTHERN NEW JERSEY...PROBABLY JUST WEST OF NEW YORK CITY...WINDS WILL SWITCH AROUND TO NORTHWEST THROUGHOUT THE AREA THIS EVENING AND BEGIN TO USHER IN COLDER AIR FROM THE NORTHWEST. SUN WILL MIX WITH SOME CLOUDS SUNDAY...BUT IT WILL BE WINDY AND CHILLY. ANOTHER WEAKER STORM WILL BLOW IN FROM THE NORTHWEST LATER SUNDAY AND...WITH THE COLDER TEMPERATURES...COULD GIVE US SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS SUNDAY NIGHT. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD AGAIN FOR MONDAY...BRINGING FAIR BUT CONTINUED COOL WEATHER FOR VETERAN'S DAY. THE NEXT STATEMENT REGARDING TODAY'S WEATHER WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 6 PM...OR SOONER IF CONDITIONS WARRANT. JRP
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 3:45 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bergen | 5 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990
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.