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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS New York, NY

August 9, 20074 counties in New York; Hudson County, Passaic County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood watch at Aug 9, 2007, 4:12 PM EDT for 4 counties in New York; Hudson County, Passaic County, New Jersey. It took effect at Aug 10, 2007, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 9, 2007, 4:12 PM EDT (20:12 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 10, 2007, 12:00 AM EDT
Expired
Aug 10, 2007, 11:45 AM EDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Flood severity
None

Counties Hudson County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Bronx County, NY, Kings County, NY, New York County, NY, Richmond County, NY

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 225 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2007-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 30 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2007-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -22 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
30 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-330 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood watch went out at Aug 9, 3:12 PM EDT, 1 hour earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 3:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 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.