Alert archive / Connecticut / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jan 29, 1994, 2:28 AM EST for Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 29, 1994, 2:28 AM EST (07:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 29, 1994, 8:30 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 799 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBDL 290728 FFWBDL CTC009-291330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT 228 AM EST SAT JAN 29 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HARTFORD HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT ...NORTHWESTERN NEW HAVEN COUNTY REPORTS OF AN ICE JAM ALONG THE POMPERAUG RIVER IN SOUTHBURY CONNECTICUT. RESIDENCE LIVING UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM SHOULD TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS IF AND WHEN THIS ICE JAM BREAKS. THE RIVER IS 4 TO 6 FEET OVER BANKFUL AS OF 145 AM EST. WBK A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP 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, Jan 28, 9:00 PM EST, 5 hours 28 minutes before
NYZ067>081-NJZ001>014-291000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...NORTHERN NEW JERSEY AND LONG ISLAND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 900 PM EST FRI JAN 28 1994 ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT FOR NORTHERN NEW JERSEY AND EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK INCLUDING LONG ISLAND... A STRONG LOW PRESSURE CENTER WILL TRACK NORTHEASTWARD THROUGH THE ST. LAWRENCE VALLEY TONIGHT. IT WILL DRAG ITS ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT THROUGH OUR REGION AROUND MIDNIGHT OR SO BUT LITTLE IF INDEED ANY ADDITIONAL PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED. THIS IS VERY GOOD CONSIDERING THE HEAVY RAINS WE HAD TO DEAL WITH EARLIER. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF BETWEEN 1 AND AROUND 2 INCHES WERE COMMON THROUGHOUT OUR REGION. TO MAKE MATTERS EVEN WORSE...THE RAINS AND MILD WEATHER MELTED A GOOD DEAL OF OUR SNOW COVER. THIS ALL LEAD TO CONSIDERABLE FLOODING PROBLEMS. ALTHOUGH THIS SITUATION HAS IMPROVED FOR MOST AREAS...MOTORIST WILL STILL NEED TO EXERCISE CAUTION OVERNIGHT IN REGARD TO THIS. ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM MOTORIST WILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH IN SOME VERY DENSE FOG. VISIBILITIES WILL BE AT 1/4 MILE OR LESS THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE TRI-STATE REGION FOR MUCH OF TONIGHT MAKING IT NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE THE STANDING WATER ON OUR ROADWAYS. SUNSHINE RETURNS SATURDAY AND A WEAK RIDGE OF HIGHER PRESSURE SLIDES ACROSS. TEMPERATURES WILL BE ABOVE NORMAL SATURDAY BUT THEN FALL OFF LATER IN THE DAY AS ANOTHER COLD FRONT PASSES THROUGH. SUNDAY WILL FEATURE INCREASING CLOUDINESS AS A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM BEGINS TO DEVELOP OFF THE MID ATLANTIC COAST. THE TRACK AND INTENSITY OF THIS DEVELOPING LOW IS STILL IN DOUBT BUT WE SHOULD WITNESS SOME SNOW IN RESPONSE TO IT. EXACTLY HOW MUCH OR HOW LITTLE WE GET WILL DEPEND ON ITS TRACK AND STRENGTH. STALKER
Special weather statement, Jan 28, 9:07 PM EST, 5 hours 21 minutes before
NYZ067>081-NJZ001>014-291000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...NORTHERN NEW JERSEY AND LONG ISLAND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 900 PM EST FRI JAN 28 1994 ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT FOR NORTHERN NEW JERSEY AND EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK INCLUDING LONG ISLAND... A STRONG LOW PRESSURE CENTER WILL TRACK NORTHEASTWARD THROUGH THE ST. LAWRENCE VALLEY TONIGHT. IT WILL DRAG ITS ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT THROUGH OUR REGION AROUND MIDNIGHT OR SO BUT LITTLE IF INDEED ANY ADDITIONAL PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED. THIS IS VERY GOOD CONSIDERING THE HEAVY RAINS WE HAD TO DEAL WITH EARLIER. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF BETWEEN 1 AND AROUND 2 INCHES WERE COMMON THROUGHOUT OUR REGION. TO MAKE MATTERS EVEN WORSE...THE RAINS AND MILD WEATHER MELTED A GOOD DEAL OF OUR SNOW COVER. THIS ALL LEAD TO CONSIDERABLE FLOODING PROBLEMS. ALTHOUGH THIS SITUATION HAS IMPROVED FOR MOST AREAS...MOTORIST WILL STILL NEED TO EXERCISE CAUTION OVERNIGHT IN REGARD TO THIS. ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM MOTORIST WILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH IN SOME VERY DENSE FOG. VISIBILITIES WILL BE AT 1/4 MILE OR LESS THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE TRI-STATE REGION FOR MUCH OF TONIGHT MAKING IT NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE THE STANDING WATER ON OUR ROADWAYS. SUNSHINE RETURNS SATURDAY AND A WEAK RIDGE OF HIGHER PRESSURE SLIDES ACROSS. TEMPERATURES WILL BE ABOVE NORMAL SATURDAY BUT THEN FALL OFF LATER IN THE DAY AS ANOTHER COLD FRONT PASSES THROUGH. SUNDAY WILL FEATURE INCREASING CLOUDINESS AS A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM BEGINS TO DEVELOP OFF THE MID ATLANTIC COAST. THE TRACK AND INTENSITY OF THIS DEVELOPING LOW IS STILL IN DOUBT BUT WE SHOULD WITNESS SOME SNOW IN RESPONSE TO IT. EXACTLY HOW MUCH OR HOW LITTLE WE GET WILL DEPEND ON ITS TRACK AND STRENGTH. STALKER
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.