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Flood Watch 8, NWS New York, NY

June 27, 20064 counties in New York; Hudson County, Passaic County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this flood watch at Jun 27, 2006, 3:06 PM EDT for 4 counties in New York; Hudson County, Passaic County, New Jersey. It took effect at Jun 28, 2006, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 2006, 3:06 PM EDT (19:06 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 28, 2006, 12:00 AM EDT
Expired
Jun 28, 2006, 9:38 AM EDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Flood severity
None

Counties Hudson County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Westchester County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 172 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2006-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 477 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2006-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 299 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
477 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
616 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
299 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
409 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
3.6

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS New York, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flood watch went out at Jun 27, 11:11 AM EDT, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 11:11 AM EDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
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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.