Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at May 16, 1990, 10:00 PM EDT for 4 counties in New Jersey. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1990, 10:00 PM EDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1990, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Warren 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 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 277 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 996 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 10:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic | 3 hr |
| May 16, 10:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Middlesex, Somerset, Union | 3 hr |
| May 16, 11:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Monmouth | 2 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.