Alert archive / New Jersey / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 8, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this red flag warning at Apr 17, 2012, 3:36 AM EDT for 5 counties in New Jersey; 4 counties in Connecticut. It took effect at Apr 17, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 17, 2012, 3:36 AM EDT (07:36 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 17, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2012, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
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, Hudson County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Union County, NJ
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:39 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 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 1779 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
010 WWUS81 KOKX 170736 RFWOKX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 336 AM EDT TUE APR 17 2012 CTZ005>012-NJZ002-004-006-103>108-NYZ067>075-078>081-176>179- 171600- /O.UPG.KOKX.FW.A.0009.120417T1600Z-120418T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KOKX.FW.W.0008.120417T1600Z-120418T0000Z/ NORTHERN FAIRFIELD-NORTHERN NEW HAVEN-NORTHERN MIDDLESEX- NORTHERN NEW LONDON-SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD-SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN- SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX-SOUTHERN NEW LONDON-WESTERN PASSAIC- EASTERN PASSAIC-HUDSON-WESTERN BERGEN-EASTERN BERGEN- WESTERN ESSEX-EASTERN ESSEX-WESTERN UNION-EASTERN UNION-ORANGE- PUTNAM-ROCKLAND-NORTHERN WESTCHESTER-SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER- NEW YORK (MANHATTAN)-BRONX-RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND)- KINGS (BROOKLYN)-NORTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-NORTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-NORTHERN QUEENS- NORTHERN NASSAU-SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 336 AM EDT TUE APR 17 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR THE ENTIRE TRI-STATE AREA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS...GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS...AND DRY FINE FUELS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...LOWER HUDSON VALLEY...NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY...LONG ISLAND...NEW YORK CITY AND CONNECTICUT. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 20 PERCENT. * TIMING...THE PEAK WINDS AND LOWEST RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL COINCIDE DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. * IMPACTS...INCREASED FIRE SPREAD IF IGNITION OCCURS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND DRY FUELS WILL CREATE A SIGNIFICANTLY ELEVATED FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
2 follow-up statements
198 WWUS81 KOKX 171456 RFWOKX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 1056 AM EDT TUE APR 17 2012 CTZ005>012-NJZ002-004-006-103>108-NYZ067>075-078>081-176>179- 180000- /O.CON.KOKX.FW.W.0008.120417T1600Z-120418T0000Z/ NORTHERN FAIRFIELD-NORTHERN NEW HAVEN-NORTHERN MIDDLESEX- NORTHERN NEW LONDON-SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD-SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN- SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX-SOUTHERN NEW LONDON-WESTERN PASSAIC- EASTERN PASSAIC-HUDSON-WESTERN BERGEN-EASTERN BERGEN- WESTERN ESSEX-EASTERN ESSEX-WESTERN UNION-EASTERN UNION-ORANGE- PUTNAM-ROCKLAND-NORTHERN WESTCHESTER-SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER- NEW YORK (MANHATTAN)-BRONX-RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND)- KINGS (BROOKLYN)-NORTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-NORTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-NORTHERN QUEENS- NORTHERN NASSAU-SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 1056 AM EDT TUE APR 17 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR THE ENTIRE TRI-STATE AREA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS...GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS...AND DRY FINE FUELS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...LOWER HUDSON VALLEY...NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY... LONG ISLAND...NEW YORK CITY AND CONNECTICUT. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 20 PERCENT. * TIMING...THE PEAK WINDS AND LOWEST RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL COINCIDE DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. * IMPACTS...INCREASED FIRE SPREAD IF IGNITION OCCURS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND DRY FUELS WILL CREATE A SIGNIFICANTLY ELEVATED FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
813 WWUS81 KOKX 172330 RFWOKX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 730 PM EDT TUE APR 17 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING CANCELLED... CTZ005>012-NJZ002-004-006-103>108-NYZ067>075-078>081-176>179- 180030- /O.CAN.KOKX.FW.W.0008.000000T0000Z-120418T0000Z/ NORTHERN FAIRFIELD-NORTHERN NEW HAVEN-NORTHERN MIDDLESEX- NORTHERN NEW LONDON-SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD-SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN- SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX-SOUTHERN NEW LONDON-WESTERN PASSAIC- EASTERN PASSAIC-HUDSON-WESTERN BERGEN-EASTERN BERGEN- WESTERN ESSEX-EASTERN ESSEX-WESTERN UNION-EASTERN UNION-ORANGE- PUTNAM-ROCKLAND-NORTHERN WESTCHESTER-SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER- NEW YORK (MANHATTAN)-BRONX-RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND)- KINGS (BROOKLYN)-NORTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-NORTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-NORTHERN QUEENS- NORTHERN NASSAU-SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 730 PM EDT TUE APR 17 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. ALTHOUGH RELATIVE HUMIDITY REMAINS LOW THIS EVENING...WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED BELOW RED FLAG CRITERIA. THE WARNING HAS THEREFORE BEEN CANCELLED. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT A COLD FRONT WILL TRACK ACROSS THE REGION THIS EVENING. OCCASIONAL NORTHWEST WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE BEHIND THE FRONTAL PASSAGE. $$ JMC
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in New Jersey, 2012Red Flag Warnings in Connecticut, 2012Red Flag Warnings in New York, 2012Every red flag warning in 2012
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.