Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at May 12, 2004, 3:58 PM EDT for Bergen County, Essex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 2004, 3:58 PM EDT (19:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2004, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 1624 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 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 121958 FFWOKX NJC003-013-122100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 358 PM EDT WED MAY 12 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BERGEN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY NORTHERN ESSEX COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 500 PM EDT * AT 357 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RIDGEFIELD THE WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. 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. $$ TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN UPTON NY. LAT...LON 4072 7435 4082 7394 4101 7394 4087 7435
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KOKX 122056 FFSOKX NJC003-013-122145- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 452 PM EDT WED MAY 12 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BERGEN AND ESSEX COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED... THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. ALTHOUGH THE THREAT FOR FLASH FLOODING HAS ENDED SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. SOME ROADWAYS STILL MAY BE COVERED WITH WATER. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO AVOID DRIVING THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Passaic | 28 min |
| May 12, 3:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Passaic | 50 min |
| May 12, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen | 49 min |
| May 12, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen, Essex | 24 min |
| May 12, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Hudson | 44 min |
| May 12, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Union | 35 min |
| May 12, 4:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Union | 43 min |
| May 12, 5:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Union | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004
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.