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Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS New York, NY

September 8, 1996Bergen County, Hudson County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Sep 8, 1996, 3:11 PM EDT for Bergen County, Hudson County, New Jersey. It was in force for 64 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
Sep 8, 1996, 3:11 PM EDT (19:11 UTC)
Expired
Sep 8, 1996, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bergen County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 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 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 102 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 1996-09-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 153 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 1996-09-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 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
153 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KNYC 081912
FFWNYC
NJC003-017-082015-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
311 PM EDT SUN SEP 8 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM EDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY
 
   ...BERGEN COUNTY...HUDSON COUNTY
 
A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER ESSEX AND UNION COUNTIES ARE MOVING
EASTWARD AND WILL REACH THE REGION BY 330 PM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE
VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. STREET AND
HIGHWAY FLOODING IS POSSIBLE.
 
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 8, 2:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXEssex, Union61 min
Sep 8, 3:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXHudson30 min

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.