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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 3, 1996, 5:12 PM EDT for Bergen County, Passaic County, New Jersey. It was in force for 2 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
- Jul 3, 1996, 5:12 PM EDT (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1996, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bergen County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 584 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNYC 032113 RRA FFWNYC NJC003-031-032315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 512 PM EDT WED JUL 3 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY ...BERGEN COUNTY...PASSAIC COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN OVER THE AREA. RADAR HAS ESTIMATED AS MUCH 2 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL LEADING TO THE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS...ROADS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS. JGOUDSWARD/HAYES
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, Jul 3, 3:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 320 PM EDT WED JUL 3 1996 ...SEVERE WEATHER IN NORTHERN NEW HAVEN COUNTY EARLY THIS MORNING... A LINE OF EAST SOUTHEAST MOVING THUNDERSTORMS THAT PASSED ACROSS CONNECTICUT THIS MORNING PRODUCED SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE IN THE WATERBURY AND WOLCOTT COMMUNITIES OF EXTREME NORTHERN NEW HAVEN COUNTY. A TEAM OF METEOROLOGISTS FROM THE FORECAST OFFICE AT UPTON NEW YORK IS CURRENTLY ON THEIR WAY TO THE REGION AS PART OF AN OFFICIAL DAMAGE SURVEY. BASED ON REPORTS FROM LOCAL OFFICIALS...TELEVISION EMPLOYEES AND SKYWARN SPOTTERS...IT APPEARS THAT A DOWNBURST PRODUCED THE DAMAGE OVER THE BUCKS HILL SECTION OF WATERBURY THAN HELPED SPAWN A TORNADO OVER WEST CENTRAL WOLCOTT. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT A "BOW" IN THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CAUSE THE INTENSIFICATION OF A THUNDERSTORM ON THE NORTH END OF THE BOW. THIS STORM MOVED ACROSS THE WATERBURY AND WOLCOTT AREA. THE FOLLOWING IS WHAT IS KNOWN AT THIS TIME. THE EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN 635 AND 645 AM BASED ON RADAR. NO INJURIES HAVE BEEN REPORTED. TOTAL DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. SEVERAL REPORTS OF MARBLE SIZED HAIL FROM THE PUBLIC WITH A REPORT OF TENNIS BALL SIZED HAIL HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. PROPERTY DAMAGE WAS MOSTLY ROOF AND TREE DAMAGE. SEVERAL THOUSANDS LOST POWER IN THE AREA. EXTENSIVE ROOF DAMAGE TO THE WATERBURY HIGH SCHOOL GYM WAS DONE. REPORTS OF A LARGE BUILDING COLLAPSE IN WATERBURY AT AN OIL COMPANY WAS RECEIVED. A SKYWARN SPOTTER/PRIVATE METEOROLOGIST/HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER INVESTIGATION OF THE DAMAGE IN WALCOTT INDICATES DISTINCT TORNADIC DAMAGE ALONG BEACH ROAD. A PATH...TWISTED DEBRIS AND OPPOSITE FALLING DIRECTIONS OF THE TREES ON EITHER SIDE OF THE PATH WAS OBSERVED. A FINAL REPORT WILL BE ISSUED LATER TONIGHT WHEN THE DAMAGE SURVEY RETURNS. THE NWS WISHES TO THANK THE LOCAL NEW HAVEN TELEVISION STATION AND LOCAL OFFICIALS FOR THEIR COOPERATION DURING THIS EVENT. TONGUE
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 10:42 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bergen | 2 hr |
| Jul 3, 3:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Union | 96 min |
| Jul 3, 5:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Union | 117 min |
| Jul 3, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen, Passaic | 69 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.