Alert archive / New York / Flood Watches in 2011
Flood Watch 1, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flood watch at Feb 24, 2011, 12:17 PM EST for 4 counties in New York; 4 counties in New Jersey; 4 counties in Connecticut. It took effect at Feb 25, 2011, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2011, 12:17 PM EST (17:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 25, 2011, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2011, 4:08 PM EST
- In force
- 9 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, Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Westchester County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:22 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 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 2354 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Feb 24, 9:39 AM EST, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 9:39 AM EST, 2 hours 38 minutes before
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Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 3:40 AM EST | High Wind Watch | OKX | Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Orange, Putnam and 5 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 24, 4:28 PM EST | Gale Warning | OKX | 36 hr | |
| Feb 24, 4:28 PM EST | Storm Watch | OKX | 17 hr |
Nearby
Flood Watches in New York, 2011Flood Watches in New Jersey, 2011Flood Watches in Connecticut, 2011Every flood watch in 2011
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.