Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings in 2012
Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 22, 2012, 4:16 PM EDT for Bergen County, Essex County, Passaic County, New Jersey. It was in force for 119 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 2012, 4:16 PM EDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2012, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1212 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
812
WGUS51 KOKX 222016
FFWOKX
NJC003-013-031-222215-
/O.NEW.KOKX.FF.W.0026.120822T2016Z-120822T2215Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
416 PM EDT WED AUG 22 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
PASSAIC COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY...
SOUTHERN BERGEN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY...
CENTRAL ESSEX COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY...
* UNTIL 615 PM EDT...
* AT 411 PM EDT...FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED FROM A THUNDERSTORM
OVER THE WARNED AREA. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS OCCURRED AN
ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND DRAINAGES...
OVERPECK CREEK...SECOND RIVER...PASSAIC RIVER...WEASEL BROOK...BERRYS
CREEK...SPROUT BROOK...HACKENSACK RIVER...MILL CREEK.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 4089 7424 4091 7412 4082 7399 4081 7401
4082 7402 4081 7404 4076 7425
$$
METThe office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 4:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Essex | 45 min |
| Aug 22, 4:05 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Bergen, Essex, Passaic | 85 min |
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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.