Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 25, 1997, 2:20 AM EDT for Union County, New Jersey. It was in force for 10 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 25, 1997, 2:20 AM EDT (06:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1997, 12:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Union County, NJ
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 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 250621 FFWNYC NJC039-251600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 220 AM EDT FRI JUL 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL NOON EDT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY ...UNION COUNTY STORM TOTAL PRECIPITATION OF FOUR TO FIVE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS MUCH OF UNION COUNTY. THIS HAS CAUSED MANY SMALL RIVERS AND STREAMS TO RISE TO BANKFULL. THE RIVER GAGE IN SPRINGFIELD ON THE RAHWAY RIVER HAS RISEN TO 7.7 WHICH IS 2.2 FEET ABOVE ITS 5.5 FOOT FLOOD STAGE. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A BATCH OF MODERATE RAIN CONTINUES OVER THE WARNING AREA. THE COUNTY COULD RECEIVE AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS WHICH COULD CAUSE ADDITIONAL STREAMS TO FLOOD. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO 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. WOOLDRIDGE
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, Jul 24, 9:48 PM EDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 950 PM EDT THU JUL 24 1997 A FRONTAL SYSTEM EXTENDING FROM VIRGINIA AND SOUTHERN MARYLAND OUT OVER THE OCEAN WILL MOVE SLOWLY NORTH OVERNIGHT THEN WEAKEN ON FRIDAY AS IT REACHES OUR AREA. MOISTURE AHEAD OF THIS FRONT WAS CONTINUING TO STREAM IN FROM OFF THE OCEAN BUT ON A REDUCED SCALE. SO WHILE THE WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN HAS SLACKENED OFF...A LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOUR MAY STILL OCCUR FROM TIME TO TIME. IN ADDITION BRISK NORTHEAST WINDS MAY RAISE TIDES TO 1 FEET ABOVE NORMAL TONIGHT. THIS MAY CAUSE MINOR COASTAL FLOODING IN A COUPLE OF SPOTS AT THE TIMES OF HIGH TIDE. AS THE WINDS SHIFT INTO THE NORTH LATE TONIGHT THE THREAT OF HIGHER-THAN-NORMAL TIDES AND COASTAL FLOODING WILL DIMINISH. SCATTERED SHOWERS MAY LINGER INTO FRIDAY MORNING BEFORE A SLOW CLEARING TREND BEGINS IN THE AFTERNOON. AS FOR THE WEEKEND IT WILL BE BACK TO SUMMER AS THE THERMOMETER REBOUNDS TO NEAR 90 DEGREES IN MANY PLACES...AND HUMIDITY LEVELS BEGIN TO CREEP UP AGAIN...ESPECIALLY ON SUNDAY. MEANWHILE TROPICAL STORM DANNY...LOCATED BWELL EAST OF THE VURGINIA COAST...IS FORECAST TO MOVE RAPIDLY TOWARD THE EAST NORTHEAST OVERNIGHT AND ON FRIDAY. THIS TRACK WILL KEEP THE STORM'S CENTER WELL AWAY FROM OUR AREA...SPARING US ITS HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS. EY
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 9:50 PM EDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 950 PM EDT THU JUL 24 1997 A FRONTAL SYSTEM EXTENDING FROM VIRGINIA AND SOUTHERN MARYLAND OUT OVER THE OCEAN WILL MOVE SLOWLY NORTH OVERNIGHT THEN WEAKEN ON FRIDAY AS IT REACHES OUR AREA. MOISTURE AHEAD OF THIS FRONT WAS CONTINUING TO STREAM IN FROM OFF THE OCEAN BUT ON A REDUCED SCALE. SO WHILE THE WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN HAS SLACKENED OFF...A LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOUR MAY STILL OCCUR FROM TIME TO TIME. IN ADDITION BRISK NORTHEAST WINDS MAY RAISE TIDES TO 1 FEET ABOVE NORMAL TONIGHT. THIS MAY CAUSE MINOR COASTAL FLOODING IN A COUPLE OF SPOTS AT THE TIMES OF HIGH TIDE. AS THE WINDS SHIFT INTO THE NORTH LATE TONIGHT THE THREAT OF HIGHER-THAN-NORMAL TIDES AND COASTAL FLOODING WILL DIMINISH. SCATTERED SHOWERS MAY LINGER INTO FRIDAY MORNING BEFORE A SLOW CLEARING TREND BEGINS IN THE AFTERNOON. AS FOR THE WEEKEND IT WILL BE BACK TO SUMMER AS THE THERMOMETER REBOUNDS TO NEAR 90 DEGREES IN MANY PLACES...AND HUMIDITY LEVELS BEGIN TO CREEP UP AGAIN...ESPECIALLY ON SUNDAY. MEANWHILE TROPICAL STORM DANNY...LOCATED WELL EAST OF THE VURGINIA COAST...IS FORECAST TO MOVE RAPIDLY TOWARD THE EAST NORTHEAST OVERNIGHT AND ON FRIDAY. THIS TRACK WILL KEEP THE STORMS CENTER WELL AWAY FROM OUR AREA...SPARING US ITS HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS. EY
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997
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.