Alert archive / New York / Flood Watches in 2006
Flood Watch 9, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flood watch at Jul 12, 2006, 3:40 AM EDT for 4 counties in New York; 4 counties in Connecticut; Passaic County, New Jersey. It took effect at Jul 12, 2006, 4:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 12, 2006, 3:40 AM EDT (07:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 12, 2006, 4:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2006, 3:12 AM EDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, CT, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Passaic County, NJ, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Westchester County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:44 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1307 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Jul 12, 3:23 AM EDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 3:23 AM EDT, 17 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 11, 12:38 PM EDT, 15 hours 2 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 1238 PM EDT TUE JUL 11 2006 CTZ005>012-NJZ002>006-011-NYZ067>081-120000- NORTHERN FAIRFIELD-NORTHERN NEW HAVEN-NORTHERN MIDDLESEX- NORTHERN NEW LONDON-SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD-SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN- SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX-SOUTHERN NEW LONDON-WESTERN PASSAIC-BERGEN- EASTERN PASSAIC-ESSEX-HUDSON-UNION-ORANGE-PUTNAM-ROCKLAND- NORTHERN WESTCHESTER-SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER-NEW YORK (MANHATTAN)- BRONX-RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND)-KINGS (BROOKLYN)-QUEENS-NASSAU- NORTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-NORTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- 1238 PM EDT TUE JUL 11 2006 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 591 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT...NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS INTO THIS EVENING. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH HEAVY RAINFALL...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...SOME OF WHICH MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED. ANZ330-335-338-350-353-355-120000- LONG ISLAND SOUND EAST OF NEW HAVEN CT/PORT JEFFERSON NY- LONG ISLAND SOUND WEST OF NEW HAVEN CT/PORT JEFFERSON NY- NEW YORK HARBOR-MORICHES INLET NY TO MONTAUK POINT NY OUT 20 NM- FIRE ISLAND INLET NY TO MORICHES INLET NY OUT 20 NM- SANDY HOOK NJ TO FIRE ISLAND INLET NY OUT 20 NM- 1238 PM EDT TUE JUL 11 2006 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 591 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS INTO THIS EVENING. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH HEAVY RAINFALL...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...SOME OF WHICH MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Suffolk | 51 min |
| Jul 12, 2:41 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 55 min | |
| Jul 12, 3:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | OKX | Westchester | 20 min |
| Jul 12, 4:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 57 min | |
| Jul 12, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 31 min | |
| Jul 12, 5:08 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 37 min | |
| Jul 12, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Kings, New York, Richmond | 37 min |
| Jul 12, 5:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Kings, New York, Queens | 56 min |
| Jul 12, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Queens | 24 min |
| Jul 12, 5:27 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 66 min | |
| Jul 12, 6:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 47 min | |
| Jul 12, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Nassau | 14 min |
| Jul 12, 3:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 37 min |
Nearby
Flood Watches in New York, 2006Flood Watches in Connecticut, 2006Flood Watches in New Jersey, 2006Every flood watch in 2006
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.