Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 7, 2000, 2:42 AM EDT for Bergen County, Passaic County, New Jersey; Orange County, New York. 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
- Jun 7, 2000, 2:42 AM EDT (06:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2000, 6:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bergen County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Orange County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:43 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 482 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 385 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KOKX 070643 FFWOKX NJC003-031-NYC071-071000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 242 AM EDT WED JUN 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY CONTINUES THE * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BERGEN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY... PASSAIC COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY... AND ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK... * UNTIL 600 AM EDT... * DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW A BAND OF RAIN TRAINING OVER THE SAME COUNTIES. RADAR STORM TOTAL ESTIMATES OF 4 TO 5 INCHES ARE SEEN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. THIS HAS AND WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE SIGNIFICANT STREET AND HIGHWAY FLOODING. SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA MAY WELL RISE TO BANKFULL OR SLIGHTLY OVER DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. $$ PW BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN< UPTON NY. LAT...LON 4144 7476 4079 7405 4094 7396 4145 7443
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 11:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bergen, Passaic | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 12:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bronx, New York, Westchester | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 2000Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.