Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Watches in 2008
Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood watch at Jul 23, 2008, 4:49 AM EDT for 9 counties in New York; 4 counties in Connecticut; Hudson County, Passaic County, New Jersey. It took effect at Jul 23, 2008, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 30 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 2008, 4:49 AM EDT (08:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 23, 2008, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2008, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 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, Hudson County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Bronx County, NY, Kings County, NY, New York County, NY, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Richmond County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Suffolk County, NY, Westchester County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:50 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 1357 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 23, 2:11 AM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 2:11 AM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 22, 5:31 AM EDT, 23 hours 18 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 531 AM EDT TUE JUL 22 2008 CTZ005-009-NJZ002>006-011-NYZ067>077-231015- NORTHERN FAIRFIELD-SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD-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- 531 AM EDT TUE JUL 22 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT...NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS FORECAST A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. A WEAK SURFACE TROUGH AND APPROACHING MID LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL TRIGGER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN THE VERY WARM AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS IN PLACE. SOME OF THESE COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON WEDNESDAY...AND SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL FROM WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY... AS A COLD FRONT STALLS ACROSS THE AREA. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY BE ISSUED IN THE NEXT DAY OR TWO. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON...AND AGAIN FROM WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY. && THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK PROVIDES A SUMMARY OF POTENTIAL WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER EVENTS THAT MAY REACH NWS WARNING CRITERIA. MOST LONG FUSED NWS WATCHES...WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES IN EFFECT ARE HIGHLIGHTED. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST NWS FORECASTS FOR WEATHER NOT MEETING NWS WARNING CRITERIA. CTZ006>008-010>012-NYZ078>081-231015- NORTHERN NEW HAVEN-NORTHERN MIDDLESEX-NORTHERN NEW LONDON- SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN-SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX-SOUTHERN NEW LONDON- NORTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-NORTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- 531 AM EDT TUE JUL 22 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT AND SOUTHEAST NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY...AS A COLD FRONT STALLS NEAR THE AREA. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY BE ISSUED IN THE NEXT DAY OR TWO. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED FROM WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY. && THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK PROVIDES A SUMMARY OF POTENTIAL WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER EVENTS THAT MAY REACH NWS WARNING CRITERIA. MOST LONG FUSED NWS WATCHES...WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES IN EFFECT ARE HIGHLIGHTED. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST NWS FORECASTS FOR WEATHER NOT MEETING NWS WARNING CRITERIA. ANZ335-338-355-231015- LONG ISLAND SOUND WEST OF NEW HAVEN CT/PORT JEFFERSON NY- NEW YORK HARBOR-SANDY HOOK NJ TO FIRE ISLAND INLET NY OUT 20 NM- 531 AM EDT TUE JUL 22 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS FORECAST A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. A WEAK SURFACE TROUGH AND APPROACHING MID LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL TRIGGER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN THE VERY WARM AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS IN PLACE. SOME OF THESE COULD PRODUCE WIND GUSTS OVER 35 KT...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS FORECAST ANOTHER SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR WEDNESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING COULD ONCE AGAIN PRODUCE WIND GUSTS OVER 35 KT...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND LARGE HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED BOTH TODAY AND WEDNESDAY. && THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK PROVIDES A SUMMARY OF POTENTIAL WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER EVENTS THAT MAY REACH NWS WARNING CRITERIA. MOST LONG FUSED NWS WATCHES...WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES IN EFFECT ARE HIGHLIGHTED. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST NWS FORECASTS FOR WEATHER NOT MEETING NWS WARNING CRITERIA. ANZ330-340-345-350-353-231015- LONG ISLAND SOUND EAST OF NEW HAVEN CT/PORT JEFFERSON NY- PECONIC AND GARDINERS BAYS- SOUTH SHORE BAYS FROM JONES INLET THROUGH SHINNECOCK BAY- MORICHES INLET NY TO MONTAUK POINT NY OUT 20 NM- FIRE ISLAND INLET NY TO MORICHES INLET NY OUT 20 NM- 531 AM EDT TUE JUL 22 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. && THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK PROVIDES A SUMMARY OF POTENTIAL WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER EVENTS THAT MAY REACH NWS WARNING CRITERIA. MOST LONG FUSED NWS WATCHES...WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES IN EFFECT ARE HIGHLIGHTED. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST NWS FORECASTS FOR WEATHER NOT MEETING NWS WARNING CRITERIA. GOODMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 5:45 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Kings, Queens | 90 min |
| Jul 23, 10:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Nassau, Suffolk | 91 min |
| Jul 23, 5:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Orange | 118 min |
| Jul 23, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Putnam, Rockland, Westchester | 43 min |
| Jul 23, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Putnam, Westchester | 44 min |
| Jul 23, 6:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Orange, Rockland | 110 min |
| Jul 23, 1:15 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 2 hr |
| Jul 23, 2:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 26 min |
| Jul 23, 3:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 2 hr |
| Jul 23, 4:50 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Essex, Union | 85 min |
| Jul 23, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Essex, Hudson, Union | 37 min |
| Jul 23, 6:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Essex, Union | 95 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in New York, 2008Flash Flood Watches in Connecticut, 2008Flash Flood Watches in New Jersey, 2008Every flash flood watch in 2008
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.