Alert archive / New Jersey / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 3, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this red flag warning at Apr 21, 2016, 10:57 AM EDT for 5 counties in New Jersey. It took effect at Apr 21, 2016, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 21, 2016, 10:57 AM EDT (14:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 21, 2016, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 21, 2016, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
Counties Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Union County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:03 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 2246 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
559 WWUS81 KOKX 211457 RFWOKX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 1057 AM EDT THU APR 21 2016 ...CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR RAPID BRUSH FIRE SPREAD THIS AFTERNOON... NJZ002-004-006-103>108-NYZ071>075-176-178-212200- /O.NEW.KOKX.FW.W.0003.160421T1600Z-160421T2200Z/ WESTERN PASSAIC-EASTERN PASSAIC-HUDSON-WESTERN BERGEN- EASTERN BERGEN-WESTERN ESSEX-EASTERN ESSEX-WESTERN UNION- EASTERN UNION-SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER-NEW YORK (MANHATTAN)-BRONX- RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND)-KINGS (BROOKLYN)-NORTHERN QUEENS- SOUTHERN QUEENS- 1057 AM EDT THU APR 21 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY...NEW YORK CITY...AND SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER COUNTY NEW YORK. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...20 TO 30 PERCENT. * TIMING...THIS AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...RAPID FIRE SPREAD IF IGNITION OCCURS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND DRY FUELS WILL CREATE A SIGNIFICANTLY ELEVATED FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/NYC (ALL LOWER CASE)
1 follow-up statement
170 WWUS81 KOKX 212000 RFWOKX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 400 PM EDT THU APR 21 2016 NJZ002-004-006-103>108-NYZ071>075-176-178-212100- /O.CAN.KOKX.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-160421T2200Z/ WESTERN PASSAIC-EASTERN PASSAIC-HUDSON-WESTERN BERGEN- EASTERN BERGEN-WESTERN ESSEX-EASTERN ESSEX-WESTERN UNION- EASTERN UNION-SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER-NEW YORK (MANHATTAN)-BRONX- RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND)-KINGS (BROOKLYN)-NORTHERN QUEENS- SOUTHERN QUEENS- 400 PM EDT THU APR 21 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. LOW LEVEL RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL INCREASE AS DEWPOINTS INCREASE INTO THE EARLY EVENING AND TEMPERATURES DECREASE. WIND GUSTS ARE NOT AS FREQUENT AND HAVE BEEN MOSTLY BELOW 25 MPH. $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/NYC (ALL LOWER CASE)
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 4:07 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | OKX | 15 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in New Jersey, 2016Red Flag Warnings in New York, 2016Every red flag warning in 2016
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.