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Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS New York, NY

August 10, 20158 counties in New York; 5 counties in New Jersey; Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood watch at Aug 10, 2015, 12:56 PM EDT for 8 counties in New York; 5 counties in New Jersey; Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Aug 11, 2015, 4:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 10, 2015, 12:56 PM EDT (16:56 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 11, 2015, 4:00 AM EDT
Expired
Aug 11, 2015, 10:50 AM EDT
In force
7 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, Westchester County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 87 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2015-08-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2015-08-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -6 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1135 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Aug 10, 10:37 AM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 10:37 AM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 9, 10:29 PM EDTSmall Craft Advisory for Hazardous SeasOKX5 hr
Aug 10, 4:51 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryOKX49 hr
Aug 10, 4:35 PM EDTRip Current StatementOKXKings, Nassau, Queens, Suffolk27 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in New York, 2015Flash Flood Watches in New Jersey, 2015Flash Flood Watches in Connecticut, 2015Every flash flood watch in 2015

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.