Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Watches in 2013
Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood watch at Jun 26, 2013, 3:29 PM EDT for 11 counties in New York; 5 counties in New Jersey; 4 counties in Connecticut. It took effect at Jun 27, 2013, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 27 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2013, 3:29 PM EDT (19:29 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 27, 2013, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2013, 3:22 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 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, Hudson County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Bronx County, NY, Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, New York County, NY, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Queens County, NY, Richmond County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Suffolk County, NY, Westchester County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1078 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 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 Jun 25, 4:07 PM EDT, 23 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 4:07 PM EDT, 23 hours 22 minutes before
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Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 25, 11:05 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 25 min | |
| Jun 25, 11:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens | 53 min |
| Jun 26, 5:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Orange | 95 min |
| Jun 26, 6:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Orange | 49 min |
| Jun 26, 6:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Westchester | 66 min |
| Jun 26, 7:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 42 min |
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.