Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 22, 1999, 6:53 AM EST for Union County, New Jersey. It was in force for 3 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
- Mar 22, 1999, 6:53 AM EST (11:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 1999, 9:50 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Union County, NJ
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 1662 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 478 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 221151 FFWNYC NJC039-221450- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 653 AM EST MON MAR 22 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS FOR... UNION COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY... * UNTIL 950 AM EST... * HEAVY RAINS HAVE CAUSED THE RAHWAY RIVER AT SPRINGFIELD TO RISE TO FLOOD STAGE THIS MORNING. 1 1/2 TO 2 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN OVERNIGHT HAVE SENT THE RAHWAY RIVER OUT OF ITS BANKS IN SPRINGFIELD. AT 6 AM THE RIVER GAGE WAS AT 5.48 FEET. FLOOD STAGE IS 5.5 FEET. FURTHER UPSTREAM ON THE WEST BRANCH OF THE RAHWAY RIVER AT MILLBURN THE RIVER HAS CRESTED. AT 6 AM THE RIVER GAGE WAS AT 8.49 FEET AND FALLING. THE EAST BRANCH OF THE RAHWAY RIVER AT MAPLEWOOD HAS ALSO CRESTED. AT 6 AM THE RIVER GAGE WAS AT 4.34 FEET AND FALLING. THE RAIN HAS COME TO END ACROSS MUCH OF NEW JERSEY THIS MORNING...HOWEVER THE HEAVY RAINS OVERNIGHT HAVE SENT MANY SMALL STREAMS IN THE COUNTY TO NEAR BANKFULL. * IF YOU LIVE NEAR A STREAM AND EXPERIENCE RISING WATER LEVELS... MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR AUTOMOBILE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. .DEND/MCKILLOP
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, Mar 22, 4:08 AM EST, 2 hours 45 minutes before
NYZ067>081-NJZ002>006-011-CTZ005>012-221600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK... NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 408 AM EST MON MAR 22 1999 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONTINUES THE FLOOD WATCH FOR THIS MORNING... ...THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... LOW PRESSURE OVER NEW JERSEY WILL CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN AS IT MOVES TOWARD SOUTHERN QUEBEC TODAY. THE OVERNIGHT RAINS WILL COME TO AN END THIS MORNING...BUT FLOODING OF SOME SMALL STREAMS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS MAY CONTINUE INTO MID OR LATE MORNING. THE GUSTY SOUTHEAST WINDS FROM SUNDAY NIGHT WILL BE REPLACED BY ,A GUSTY WEST WIND BY THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW WIND GUSTS MAY REACH 40 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE REGION FOR TONIGHT AND TUESDAY WITH FAIR AND NEAR SEASONABLE WEATHER. REYNOLDS
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 4:08 AM EST, 2 hours 45 minutes before
NYZ067>081-NJZ002>006-011-CTZ005>012-221600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK... NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 408 AM EST MON MAR 22 1999 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONTINUES THE FLOOD WATCH FOR THIS MORNING... ...THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... LOW PRESSURE OVER NEW JERSEY WILL CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN AS IT MOVES TOWARD SOUTHERN QUEBEC TODAY. THE OVERNIGHT RAINS WILL COME TO AN END THIS MORNING...BUT FLOODING OF SOME SMALL STREAMS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS MAY CONTINUE INTO MID OR LATE MORNING. THE GUSTY SOUTHEAST WINDS FROM SUNDAY NIGHT WILL BE REPLACED BY ,A GUSTY WEST WIND BY THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW WIND GUSTS MAY REACH 40 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE REGION FOR TONIGHT AND TUESDAY WITH FAIR AND NEAR SEASONABLE WEATHER. REYNOLDS
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 1999Every flash flood warning in 1999
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.