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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS New York, NY

September 10, 1992Monmouth County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Sep 10, 1992, 12:29 PM EDT for Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 10, 1992, 12:29 PM EDT (16:29 UTC)
Expired: Sep 10, 1992, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS New York, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Monmouth County, NJ

The nearest sounding before it

Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 98 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1066 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KNYC 101629
FFWEWR
NJC025-101930-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWARK NJ
ISSUED BY NEW YORK NY
1229 PM EDT THU SEP 10 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NEW JERSEY
 
   ...MONMOUTH COUNTY
 
A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN NEW JERSEY HAS
PRODUCE RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF 2.00 INCHES ACROSS MONMOUTH
COUNTY. THIS LINE HAS SLOWED DOWN OVER THE LAST FEW HOURS SO HEAVY
RAINS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER ALREADY SATURATED GROUND. FLOODING OF
STREETS...HIGHWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT TWO
TO THREE HOURS.
 
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE 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 QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

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, Sep 10, 12:29 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

CTZ004-005-101800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRIDGEPORT CT
1220 PM EDT THU SEP 10 1992

THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS WERE OCCURRING IN SOUTHWEST PORTIONS
OF CONNECTICUT...

AT 1215 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS AND MODERATE
TO HEAVY SHOWERS COVERING MOST OF THE NEW YORK METRO AREA AND
EXTENDING INTO SOUTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT AS FAR NORTHEAST AS SOUTHBURY.
THE HEAVIER SHOWERS WERE BETWEEN COS COB AJND WILTON.

THUNDERSTORMS...HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE
THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...SOME LOCAL FLOODING MAY
OCCUR IN AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE.

SHERWOOD

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.