Alert archive / Connecticut / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 30, 2001, 4:03 PM EST for Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut 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
- Mar 30, 2001, 4:03 PM EST (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2001, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, CT, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 415 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 582 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 302106 FFWNYC CTC007-011-310000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 403 PM EST FRI MAR 30 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT NEW LONDON EASTERN MIDDLESEX * UNTIL 700 PM EST. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED LIGHT TO MODERATE IS STILL CONTINUING TO FALL ACROSS THE AREA. THE AREA STILL COULD GET UP TO ONE HALF INCHES OF RAINFALL BEFORE IT SUBSIDES EARLY THIS EVENING. THE YANTIC RIVER COULD CONTINUE TO RISE TO NEAR OR JUST OVER BANKFULL BY AROUND 7 PM THIS EVENING. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES. SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RAPIDLY FLOOD...POSSIBLY WASHING OUT ROADS AND FLOODING NEARBY LOW AREAS. 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. $$ REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN UPTON NY. LAT...LON 4153 7264 4131 7255 4138 7190 4159 7198
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 9:43 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 3 hr |
| Mar 30, 12:55 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Connecticut, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001
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.