Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Dec 11, 1992, 5:50 PM EST for Richmond County, New York. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 11, 1992, 5:50 PM EST (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 11, 1992, 9:30 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Richmond County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 659 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 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 112251 FFWNYC NJC025-003-013-017-023-031-039-NYC005-047-059-061-081-085-103-119- 120230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 550 PM EST FRI DEC 11 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS EXTENDED THE FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS AND URBAN AREAS UNTIL 930 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL NEW JERSEY ...MONMOUTH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY ...BERGEN COUNTY...ESSEX COUNTY...HUDSON COUNTY ...MIDDLESEX COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN PASSAIC COUNTY...UNION COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK ...BRONX COUNTY...KINGS COUNTY...NASSAU COUNTY ...NEW YORK COUNTY...QUEENS COUNTY...RICHMOND COUNTY...SUFFOLK COUNTY ...SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER COUNTY THUNDERSTORMS HAVE INTENSIFIED THE RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA ONCE AGAIN WITH 2 TO 3 INCHES FALLING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA AND LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS REACHING CLOSE TO 4 INCHES. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS IN NEW YORK CITY AND ATLANTIC CITY CONTINUED TO SHOW BANDS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN FORMING OVER THE NEARBY ATLANTIC AND HEADING NORTHWEST INTO THE WARNED AREA AT ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SOME STREAMS AND RIVERS WITHIN THE WARNED AREA ARE STILL ABOVE BANKFULL AND THIS NEW ROUND OF HEAVY RAIN WILL ONLY EXACERBATE THE FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED IMMEDIATELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. DO NOT DRIVE AROUND ROADBLOCKS SET UP BY YOUR LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT. GIGI
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 11, 11:07 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bronx, New York, Westchester | 4 hr |
| Dec 11, 11:07 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Kings, Queens | 4 hr |
| Dec 11, 11:07 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Richmond | 4 hr |
| Dec 11, 11:07 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Nassau, Suffolk | 4 hr |
| Dec 11, 3:00 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bronx, Westchester | 3 hr |
| Dec 11, 3:00 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | New York | 3 hr |
| Dec 11, 3:00 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Kings, Nassau, Queens | 3 hr |
| Dec 11, 3:00 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Richmond | 3 hr |
| Dec 11, 3:00 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Suffolk | 3 hr |
| Dec 11, 5:50 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bronx, New York, Westchester | 4 hr |
| Dec 11, 5:50 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Nassau, Suffolk | 4 hr |
| Dec 11, 5:50 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Kings, Queens | 4 hr |
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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.