Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Watches in 2013
Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood watch at Jul 1, 2013, 4:34 AM EDT for 9 counties in New York; 5 counties in New Jersey; Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 41 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 2013, 4:34 AM EDT (08:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2013, 9:41 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 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 08:36 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 358 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 Jul 1, 1:54 AM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 1:54 AM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
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Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 5:30 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Orange | 60 min |
| Jul 1, 5:52 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Orange | 4 hr |
| Jul 1, 6:06 AM EDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | OKX | 30 hr | |
| Jul 1, 7:07 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Orange | 83 min |
| Jul 1, 8:35 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Orange, Rockland | 6 hr |
| Jul 1, 9:47 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Orange | 118 min |
| Jul 1, 10:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Orange, Putnam | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 10:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bronx, New York, Westchester | 30 min |
| Jul 1, 10:03 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond, Westchester | 6 hr |
| Jul 1, 11:47 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Kings, Nassau, Queens | 118 min |
| Jul 1, 12:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Suffolk | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 12:34 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Westchester | 116 min |
| Jul 1, 1:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Orange | 115 min |
| Jul 1, 4:30 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Orange | 2 hr |
| Jun 30, 8:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Passaic | 94 min |
| Jul 1, 9:05 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Essex, Union | 40 min |
| Jul 1, 9:14 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | OKX | Essex, Union | 31 min |
| Jul 1, 10:31 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 119 min |
| Jul 1, 11:08 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 22 min |
| Jul 1, 11:18 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 117 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.