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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS New York, NY

August 22, 1994Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 22, 1994, 1:31 AM EDT for Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 119 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 22, 1994, 1:31 AM EDT (05:31 UTC)
Expired: Aug 22, 1994, 3:30 AM EDT
In force: 119 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 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.

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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 799 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -28 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 KBDL 220531
FFWBDL
CTC009-220730-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT
131 AM EDT MON AUG 22 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HARTFORD HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT
 
   ...NORTHWESTERN NEW HAVEN COUNTY
 
A FLASH FLOODING WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE POMPERAUG RIVER AT
SOUTHBURY. SOUTHBURY POLICE REPORT THAT WATER FROM THE POMPERAUG RIVER
HAS COME OVER ITS BANKS AND CONTINUES TO RISE RAPIDLY AND HAS BEGUN TO
FLOOD HOMES AND ROADWAYS AND BRIDGES.
 
PERSONS LIVING ALONG THE POMPERAUG RIVER FROM SOUTHBURY SOUTH SHOULD
TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT LIVES AND PROPERTY.
 
 
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.
 
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.
 
 
 
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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

Local storm report, Aug 21, 11:29 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
1130 PM EDT SUN AUG 21 1994

...SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS FOR SUN AUG 21 1994...

COUNTY    ST  TIME       EVENT

MONMOUTH  NJ  1030-     UNCONFIRMED REPORT OF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN IN
              1045 PM   MILLSTONE.  MANY TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
                        IN ALLENTOWN-MILLSTONE AREA

EY

Local storm report, Aug 21, 11:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
1130 PM EDT SUN AUG 21 1994

...SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS FOR SUN AUG 21 1994...

COUNTY    ST  TIME       EVENT

MONMOUTH  NJ  1030-     UNCONFIRMED REPORT OF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN IN
              1045 PM   MILLSTONE.  MANY TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
                        IN ALLENTOWN-MILLSTONE AREA

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.