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Flood Watch 1, NWS New York, NY

January 22, 20178 counties in New York; 5 counties in New Jersey; Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this flood watch at Jan 22, 2017, 3:49 PM EST for 8 counties in New York; 5 counties in New Jersey; Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Jan 23, 2017, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 22, 2017, 3:49 PM EST (20:49 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 23, 2017, 1:00 PM EST
Expired: Jan 24, 2017, 12:05 AM EST
In force: 11 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, 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), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 92 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1055 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 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 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 flood watch went out at Jan 22, 1:04 PM EST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 22, 1:04 PM EST, 2 hours 45 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 22, 4:47 AM EST	Hurricane Force Wind Warning	OKX		40 hr
Jan 22, 4:55 AM EST	High Wind Warning	OKX	Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond and 2 more	42 hr
Jan 22, 5:24 AM EST	Coastal Flood Advisory	OKX	Bronx, Kings, Nassau, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk and 1 more	27 hr
Jan 22, 11:23 AM EST	Wind Advisory	OKX	Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond and 3 more	43 hr
Jan 22, 3:36 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	OKX	Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester	51 hr
Jan 22, 4:35 PM EST	Coastal Flood Warning	OKX	Nassau, Richmond, Suffolk, Westchester	30 hr
Jan 22, 4:35 PM EST	Coastal Flood Advisory	OKX	Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens	30 hr

Nearby

Flood Watches in New York, 2017 Flood Watches in New Jersey, 2017 Flood Watches in Connecticut, 2017 Every flood watch in 2017

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.