Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007

Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS New York, NY

January 1, 2007Union County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jan 1, 2007, 11:21 AM EST for Union County, New Jersey. It was in force for 84 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
Jan 1, 2007, 11:21 AM EST (16:21 UTC)
Expired
Jan 1, 2007, 12:45 PM EST
In force
84 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Union County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:25 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 124 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2007-01-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2007-01-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 874 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
462 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
874 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KOKX 011622
FFWOKX
NJC039-011745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY
1121 AM EST MON JAN 1 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  UNION COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY...

* UNTIL 1245 PM EST...

* AT 1121 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED  
FLOODING FROM A HEAVY RAIN BAND THAT MOVED EARLIER OVER THE WARNED 
AREA.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO UNION...
  SUMMIT...PLAINFIELD...LINDEN...ELIZABETH AND CLARK.

THE RAHWAY RIVER AT SPRINGFIELD 11 AM STAGE WAS 5.3 FEET...FLOOD 
STAGE IS 5.5 FEET.   

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM EARLIER HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE THE RAHWAY RIVER 
AT SPRINGFIELD TO RISE CLOSE TO BANKFULL OR GO JUST OVER 
BANKFULL...RESULTING IN FLASH FLOODING OF URBAN 
AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE 
AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. 

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.

DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF
RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE.

TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN UPTON
NY.

LAT...LON 4068 7415 4059 7422 4059 7445 4073 7438

$$

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 2007Every flash flood warning in 2007

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.