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Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS New York, NY

August 4, 1996Essex County, Hudson County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 1996, 4:45 PM EDT for Essex County, Hudson County, New Jersey. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 4, 1996, 4:45 PM EDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 1996, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Essex County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 110 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 12:00Z on 1996-08-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 152 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1996-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -22 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
152 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
528 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-22 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 KNYC 042046
FFWNYC
NJC013-017-042145-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
445 PM EDT SUN AUG 4 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY
 
   ...ESSEX COUNTY...HUDSON COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINS
FALLING WITH A CLUSTER OF NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN
HUSON COUNTY...NEAR HARRISON.
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE RAINFALL IN EXC
SOF 1 TO 2 INCHES IN AN HOUR...WHICH WILL CAUSE FLOODING.
 
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 RISINJG WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
HAYES/EKSTER

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.