Alert archive / Connecticut / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Apr 16, 1996, 6:05 AM EDT for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut; Westchester County, New York. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 1996, 6:05 AM EDT (10:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1996, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Westchester County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 1042 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 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 KNYC 161006 FFWNYC CTC001-NYC119-161300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 605 AM EDT TUE APR 16 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 AM EDT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST CONNECTICUT ...FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK ...SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER COUNTY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO ONE AND ONE-HALF INCHES HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE AREA DURING THE PAST 3 HOURS. MANY ROADWAYS WERE CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING. SMALL STREAMS COULD ALSO FLOOD. RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE MORNING AND MORE WIDESPREAD FLOODING IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE I(NTO 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. MET/PW
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, Apr 16, 5:25 AM EDT, 40 minutes before
NYZ067>081-NJZ002>006-011-CTZ005>012-161500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 525 AM EDT TUE APR 16 1996 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES TODAY FOR ALL OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT... ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COASTAL FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR NEW YORK CITY...LONG ISLAND AND COASTAL CONNECTICUT FOR TIMES OF HIGH TIDES THIS MORNING AND EARLY THIS AFTERNOON... A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WAS CENTERED NORTH OF THE GREAT LAKES EARLY THIS MORNING AND WAS AFFECTING MUCH OF THE EAST COAST. THE STORM WILL MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST INTO MAINE BY THIS EVENING AND CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY NORTH THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH THE STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION BY THIS AFTERNOON. AHEAD OF THE FRONT HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING ACROSS NEW JERSEY AND THE NEW YORK CITY METROPOLITAN AREA. THE RAIN WILL CONTINUE...HEAVY AT TIMES...WITH A THUNDERSTORM POSSIBLE AND TAPER OFF DURING THE AFTERNOON. THE RAINFALL COULD PRODUCE FLOODING IN URBAN AREAS AND LOW LYING AREAS. FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS IS ALSO POSSIBLE...AND A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT TODAY. STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS WERE ACCOMPANYING THE STORM. THE WINDS WILL CAUSE TIDES TO RUN AROUND 2 FT ABOVE NORMAL AND MODERATE FLOODING OF THE COASTAL AREAS IS POSSIBLE AT TIMES OF HIGH TIDE THIS MORNING AND EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THE RAIN WILL END TONIGHT WITH SOME CLEARING WEDNESDAY AS THE STORM MOVE FURTHER TO THE NORTHEAST. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BE PREPARED TO ACT QU ICKLY IF FLOODING DOES OCCUR. MET
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 12:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Connecticut, 1996Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996
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.