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Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS New York, NY

September 8, 1999Orange County, Rockland County, New York; Passaic County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Sep 8, 1999, 3:31 PM EDT for Orange County, Rockland County, New York; Passaic County, New Jersey. It was in force for 119 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, 1999, 3:31 PM EDT (19:31 UTC)
Expired
Sep 8, 1999, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
119 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Passaic County, NJ, Orange County, NY, Rockland County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 119 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 1999-09-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 807 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 1999-09-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
807 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
582 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

NWS New York, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Sep 8, 10:29 AM EDT, 5 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 10:29 AM EDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 8, 6:35 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXSuffolk2 hr
Sep 8, 1:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXWestchester58 min
Sep 8, 9:09 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXNaugatuck Valley Planning Region61 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 1999Flash 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.