Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Watches in 2013
Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood watch at Jan 29, 2013, 3:35 PM EST for 9 counties in New York; 5 counties in New Jersey; Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Jan 30, 2013, 6:00 PM EST. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 29, 2013, 3:35 PM EST (20:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 30, 2013, 6:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 31, 2013, 7:34 AM EST
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Bronx County, NY, Kings County, NY, New York County, NY, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Queens County, NY, Richmond County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Westchester County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 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 Jan 29, 1:16 PM EST, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 29, 1:16 PM EST, 2 hours 19 minutes before
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Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 4:02 AM EST | Gale Watch | OKX | 11 hr | |
| Jan 29, 4:02 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | OKX | 6 hr | |
| Jan 29, 3:30 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | OKX | 26 hr | |
| Jan 29, 3:30 PM EST | Storm Watch | OKX | 13 hr | |
| Jan 29, 3:43 PM EST | High Wind Watch | OKX | Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Orange, Putnam and 5 more | 21 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in New York, 2013Flash Flood Watches in New Jersey, 2013Flash Flood Watches in Connecticut, 2013Every flash flood watch in 2013
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.