Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS New York, NY
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.
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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, 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.
- 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
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
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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.