Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003

Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS New York, NY

August 4, 2003Bergen County, Essex County, Passaic County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 2003, 3:03 PM EDT for Bergen County, Essex County, Passaic County, New Jersey. It was in force for 117 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 4, 2003, 3:03 PM EDT (19:03 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2003, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 117 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 116 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1136 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 454 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KOKX 041904
FFWOKX
NJC003-013-031-042100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY
303 PM EDT MON AUG 4 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BERGEN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY
  NORTHERN ESSEX COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY
  SOUTHEASTERN PASSAIC COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 305 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR CALDWELL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

SOME OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE FAIRFIELD...HAWTHORNE...
NORWOOD AND ORADELL.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK
HIGHER GROUND.

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 4083 7442 4074 7422 4097 7389 4112 7421
          4102 7428

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 3:49 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Hudson, Union	116 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 2003 Every flash flood warning in 2003

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.