Flash Flood Warning 77, NWS New York, NY

Issued

Dec 2, 1996, 1:59 AM EST (06:59 UTC)

Expired

Dec 2, 1996, 2:30 AM EST

In force

31 min

Issued by

NWS New York, NY

Area

Whole counties

County Hudson County, NJ

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:58 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.

000 
TTAA00 KNYC 020701
FFWNYC
NJC003-013-017-031-039-020730-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
159 AM EST MON DEC 2 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 AM EST
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY
 
   ...BERGEN COUNTY...ESSEX COUNTY...HUDSON COUNTY
   ...PASSAIC COUNTY...UNION COUNTY
 
AT 155 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE
OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING FROM CENTRAL BERGEN COUNTY INTO
WESTERN ESSEX COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 45
TO 50 MPH.
 
IN ADDITION...FLOODING MAY OCCUR AS RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH IN
LESS THAN AN HOUR WILL OCCUR.
 
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING 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.
 
HAYES

In the hours before

NYZ067>081-501-502-508-NJZ002>006-011-CTZ005>012-021000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND
WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...
NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
900 PM EDT SUN DEC 1 1996

...FLOOD WATCH FOR NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY TONIGHT...

THE LEADING EDGE OF DRY AIR APPROACHING FROM THE WEST WILL MOVE
ACROSS THE TRI-STATE AREA FROM WEST TO EAST EARLY MONDAY MORNING.
UNTIL THIS COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE STRONG SOUTHERLY FLOW OF VERY
MOIST AIR WILL CONTINUE. WHILE NO EXTENDED PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN IS
FORECAST OVERNIGHT THERE MAY BE A BRIEF PERIOD OR TWO OF HEAVIER
RAIN...ESPECIALLY JUST AHEAD OF AND WITH THE FRONT ITSELF. EVEN A
THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE. SO THE FLOOD WATCH FOR NORTHEASTERN NEW
JERSEY REMAINS IN EFFECT.

BRISK SOUTH WINDS WILL ALSO CONTINUE OVERNIGHT. BUT THEY WILL NOT
BE AS STRONG AS THEY WERE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HOWEVER THERE
MAY BE A BRIEF PERIOD OF STRONG WIND GUSTS...POSSIBLY TO 45
MPH...ACCOMPANYING THE COLD FRONT.

ONCE THE FRONT CROSSES THE AREA WE WILL DRY OUT QUICKLY...JUST IN
TIME FOR THE START OF THE WORK WEEK. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN ON
THE MILD SIDE FOR THE FIRST PART OF THE WEEK...WITH READINGS ABOUT
FIVE DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL.

EY

Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.