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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS New York, NY

September 28, 2003Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Sep 28, 2003, 2:37 PM EDT for Lower Connecticut River Valley 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: Sep 28, 2003, 2:37 PM EDT (18:37 UTC)
Expired: Sep 28, 2003, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS New York, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, CT, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:36 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 69 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: 470 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 487 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.4

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KOKX 281841
FFWOKX
CTC007-009-282130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY
237 PM EDT SUN SEP 28 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MIDDLESEX COUNTY IN SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT
  NEW HAVEN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 236 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS NEW HAVEN AND MIDDLESEX COUNTIES. THESE     
  AREAS HAVE BEEN RECEIVING HEAVY RAIN MUCH OF THE DAY...AND 
  STREET FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BECOME SIGNIFICANT. STREAMS AND     
  CREEKS HAVE RISEN OUT OF THEIR BANKS COVERING ROADS AND FLOODING
  NEARBY LOW AREAS AND MAY RESULT IN PROPERTY DAMAGE.

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 4159 7312 4121 7302 4128 7233 4141 7243
          4153 7234 4164 7251

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.