Alert archive / Connecticut / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 12, 2000, 12:43 AM EDT for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut. 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
- Aug 12, 2000, 12:43 AM EDT (04:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2000, 4:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 383 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 984 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS51 KOKX 120450 COR
FFWNYC
CTC001-009-120800-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
1243 AM EDT SAT AUG 12 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY EXTENDS THE
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT...
WESTERN NEW HAVEN...
EASTERN FAIRFIELD...
* UNTIL 400 AM EDT...
* AT 1230 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN FAIRFIELD AND
WESTERN NEW HAVEN COUNTY SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT AND DUMPING
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 4 TO 6 INCHES OF
RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY INTO
EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN NEW HAVEN WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS OF UP TO 8
INCHES.
THE BRIDGEPORT POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED WIDESPREAD FLOODING IN
BRIDGEPORT AND STRATFORD. WATER LEVELS WHERE UP TO CAR WINDOWS AND
PEOPLE WERE TRAPPED IN HIGH WATER.
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS MOVING GRADUALLY
EASTWARD. IT WILL TAKE SEVERAL HOURS FOR FLOOD WATERS TO RECEDE
ONCE THE RAIN HAS ENDED.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.
$$
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECASTX
OFFICE IN UPTON NY.
LAT...LON 4142 7299 4122 7289 4107 7333 4132 7335
...CORRECTED TYPOS IN FIRST PARAGRAPH...The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 11:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region | 86 min |
| Aug 12, 2:17 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 3 hr |
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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.