Warning Description: Severe Thunderstorm Watch Warning Date: 3:52 PM EDT on July 23, 2008 WarningSum: Warning Message:Severe Thunderstorm Watch 738 remains in effect until 1000 PM EDT NJ . New Jersey counties included are Atlantic Bergen Burlington Camden Cape May Cumberland Essex Gloucester Hudson Hunterdon Mercer Middlesex Monmouth Morris ocean Passaic Salem Somerset Sussex Union Warren Warning Description: Flash Flood Watch Warning Date: 12:12 PM EDT on July 23, 2008 WarningSum:...Flash Flood Watch Remains In Effect Through Thursday Evening... Warning Message:The Flash Flood Watch continues for * portions of southern Connecticut...northeast New Jersey and southeast New York. This includes the following counties...in southern Connecticut...Fairfield and New Haven. In northeast New Jersey...Bergen...Passaic...Essex...Hudson and Union. In southeast New York...Bronx...Kings (brooklyn)...Nassau...New York (manhattan)...Orange...Putnam...Queens...Richmond (staten island)...Rockland and Westchester. * Through Thursday evening. * Slow moving cold front approaching the area will provide a focus for the development of numerous showers and thunderstorms through Thursday evening. Showers and thunderstorms repeatedly moving over the same areas could produce torrential rainfall...with rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour possible. * Total rainfall amounts of 3 to 4 inches are expected...with localized amounts in excess of 6 inches...especially over the higher elevations north and west of New York City. Rainfall of this magnitude will likely cause flash flooding of small streams and urban and poor drainage spots within the watch area...as well as sharp rises on larger streams and rivers. Flooding of flood prone basements is also likely. A Flash Flood Watch means that conditions may develop that lead to flash flooding. Flash flooding is a very dangerous situation. You should monitor later forecasts and be prepared to take action should flash flood warnings be issued.