Alert archive / Connecticut / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 10, 1990, 9:20 AM EDT for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 1990, 9:20 AM EDT (13:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1990, 12:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
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
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 724 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRIDGEPORT CT
920 AM EDT FRI AUG 10 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A URBAN AND SMALL
STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN
THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT
NORTHWEST AND WESTERN FAIRFIELD
HEAVY RAINS OF AROUND 2 INCHES WITH AS MUCH AS .41 OF AN INCH IN
5 MINUTES WAS REPORTED IN AND AROUND THE DANBURY CONNECTICUT AREA
AS OF 845 AM THIS MORNING.
RADAR SHOWS THAT MORE RAIN WAS HEADING INTO WESTERN AND
NORTHWESTERN AREAS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY.
VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED IMMEDIATELY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO REChOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOOD WATERS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...
ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
HAZZARDWhat 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, Aug 10, 5:13 AM EDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
NJZ015-NYZ014-015-101200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 500 AM EDT FRI AUG 10 1990 ...HEAVY DOWNPOURS IN AND AROUND THE NEW YORK CITY METRO AREA... TROPICAL-LIKE SHOWERS ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY DOWNPOURS DUMPED OVER ONE INCH OF RAIN...1.25 INCHES...BETWEEN 4 AM AND 5 AM IN CENTRAL PARK. THE HEAVY RAINS HAVE OCCURRED THROUGHOUT NEW YORK CITY AS WELL AS OVER HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES IN NEW JERSEY AND ARE MOVING NORT)H THROUGH ROCKLAND AND WESTCHESTER. THERE IS WIDESPREAD POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING. THE MORNING COMMUTE WILL BE A DIFFICULT ONE FOR MANY...SO LEAVE EXTRA TIME GETTING TO WORK TODAY. EY
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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.