Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Watches in 2013
Flash Flood Watch 7, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood watch at Aug 13, 2013, 4:08 AM EDT for 9 counties in New York; 5 counties in New Jersey; Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Aug 13, 2013, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 13, 2013, 4:08 AM EDT (08:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 13, 2013, 6:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2013, 12:09 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Naugatuck Valley 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, Queens County, NY, Richmond County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Suffolk County, NY, Westchester County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:08 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 783 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 8:12 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | OKX | 5 hr | |
| Aug 13, 9:27 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Rockland | 108 min |
| Aug 13, 9:38 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond | 112 min |
| Aug 13, 1:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 38 min | |
| Aug 13, 3:40 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | OKX | 24 hr |
Nearby
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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.