Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 18, 1992, 12:40 AM EDT for Westchester County, New York. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 1992, 12:40 AM EDT (04:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 1992, 3:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Westchester County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 531 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNYC 180456 FFWNYC NYC119-180700- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 0040 AM EDT TUE AUG 18 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 AM EDT TONIGHT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK WESTCHESTER WESCHESTER COUNTY POLICE REPORTED SOME LOCAL FLOODING OF THE SAW MILL RIVER IN YONKERS. HEAVY RAIN MOVING FROM THE NEW YORK CITY AREA NORTHWARD ACROSS WESTCHESTER COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE SOME FLOODING ALONG THE PARKWAY NEAR THE SAW MILL RIVER. PERSONS TRAVELING ABOUT IN THE AFFECTED AREA SHOULD USE CAUTION. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED AfREAS AS THE WATER IS OFTEN HIGHER THEN EXPECTED. THE RAINS WILL TAPER OFF DURING THE NEXT 2 HOURS AND THE FLOODING WILL RECEDE. HOWEVER STANDING WATER WILL REMAIN ON THE ROADWAY. SALERNO
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 17, 10:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
NJZ005-007-015-NYZ015-180400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 10 PM EDT MON AUG 17 1992 ...HEAVY RAINS AROUND THE NEW YORK CITY METROPOLITAN AREA FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS... AN AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING THROUGH MONMOUTH AND MIDDLESEX COUNTIES. IT WILL CONTINUE NORTHEAST ACROSS NEW YORK CITY...NASSAU COUNTY...AND PARTS OF NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. SOME URBAN AND POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING WILL OCCUR IN THOSE AREAS WHICH TYPICALLY FLOOD DURING HEAVY RAINS. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL TAPER OFF...TEMPORARILY...FROM SOUTH TO NORTH BY AROUND MIDNIGHT. EY
Special weather statement, Aug 17, 11:56 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
NJZ005-007-015-NYZ014-015-016-024-180700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 1145 PM EDT MON AUG 17 1992 ..LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS OVER NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY...NEW YORK CITY...WESTERN LONG ISLAND ...AND WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM COUNTIES. FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. RAIN WILL OCCUR MOST OF TONIGHT IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY...SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK STATE INCLUDING LONG ISLAND. HOWEVER AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS OVER NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY...NEW YORK CITY...WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM COUNTIES AND WESTERN LONG ISLAND. THERE WILL BE SOME FLOODING IN SOME URBAN AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. USE CAUTION WHEN TRAVELING. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL TAPER OFF.F..TEMPORARILY...FROM SOUTH TO NORTH BY BY ABOUT 2 OR 3 AM. ES
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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.