Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 2003, 4:50 PM EDT for Bergen County, Hudson County, New Jersey; Richmond County, New York. It was in force for 55 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 5, 2003, 4:50 PM EDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2003, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bergen County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Richmond County, NY
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 656 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KOKX 052050 FFWOKX NJC003-017-NYC085-052145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 450 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN BERGEN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY HUDSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY NORTHERN RICHMOND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 448 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 4 MILES WEST OF TODT HILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR... TODT HILL AROUND 455 PM TOMPKINSVILLE AROUND 500 PM BAYONNE AROUND 505 PM JERSEY CITY AND KEARNY AROUND 515 PM HOBOKEN AND 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LYNDHURST AROUND 520 PM WEEHAWKEN AND UNION CITY AROUND 525 PM SOME OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ENGLEWOOD...FORT LEE... TETERBORO...NORWOOD AND ORADELL. 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 4059 7423 4057 7409 4099 7390 4105 7403
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 2:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Union | 54 min |
| Aug 5, 4:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Rockland | 61 min |
| Aug 5, 5:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Rockland | 59 min |
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.