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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS New York, NY

June 11, 1995Bergen County, Essex County, Passaic County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 1995, 10:11 PM EDT for Bergen County, Essex County, Passaic County, New Jersey. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 1995, 10:11 PM EDT (02:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1995, 11:15 PM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 113 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 1995-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 1995-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
694 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 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 120210
FFWNYC
NJC003-013-031-120315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
1011 PM EDT SUN JUN 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM EDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY
 
   ...BERGEN COUNTY...WESTERN ESSEX COUNTY...PASSAIC COUNTY
 
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS MORRIS COUNTY NEW JERSEY WERE PRODUCING
RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AROUND 2 INCHES PER HOUR. THIS WILL CAUSE FLASH
FLOODING AS THEY MOVE ACROSS THE WARNED AREA DURING THE NEXT HOUR.
 
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.>  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

The office that day

Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 10:07 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXMorris3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.