Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Dec 12, 1992, 1:00 AM EST for Westchester County, New York. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 12, 1992, 1:00 AM EST (06:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 12, 1992, 5:00 AM EST
- In force
- 4 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, 6.0 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 669 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1010 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 120600 FFWNYC NYC119-121000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 100 AM EST SAT DEC 12 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS EXTENDED THE FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS AND URBAN AREAS UNTIL 500 AM EST SATURDAY MORNING FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK ...NORTHERN WESTCHESTER COUNTY FLOODING CONTINUES ACROSS NORTHERN WESTCHESTER COUNTY WITH REPORTS OF ROAD CLOSURES ON THE SAWMILL RIVER PARKWAY. THE FLOOD WATERS WILL BE SLOW TO RECEDE OVERNIGHT HOURS AS DRAINAGE CHANNELS REMAIN FULL. 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 POLICE.
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, Dec 11, 10:32 PM EST, 2 hours 28 minutes before
NYZ014>017-023-024-NJZ001-005-007-015-120800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - ONE OF THE WORST COASTAL STORMS EVER NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 1030 PM EST FRI DEC 11 1992 ...COASTAL FLOOD WARNING TONIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING... ...HIGH WIND WARNING TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING FOR THE IMMEDIATE COAST INCLUDING NEW YORK CITY AND LONG ISLAND... ...HIGH WIND ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND ROCKLAND AND UPPER WESTCHESTER... ...WINTER STORM WARNING TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY FOR NORTHWESTERN NEW JERSEY AND INTERIOR SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK... ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY OVER NEARBY NORTHERN AND WESTERN SUBURBS... ...FLOOD WARNING TIL 1 AM SATURDAY MORNING FOR NORTHERN WESTCHESTER COUNTY... ...STORM WARNING FOR MARINERS FOR COASTAL WATERS THROUGH TONIGHT... RAIN AND HIGH WINDS HAVE BOMBARDED THE NEW YORK METROPOLITAN AREA THIS FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT. MORE COASTAL FLOODING HAS ALSO OCCURRED TONIGHT...ALTHOUGH FROM ALL REPORTS IT WAS NOT QUITE AS BAD AS IT WAS THIS MORNING...ALTHOUGH ITS BAD ENOUGH. LOTS OF EVACUATIONS OCCURRED EARLIER TODAY AND THIS EVENING...AND PLENTY OF DAMAGE AND SOME INJURIES HAVE OCCURRED TODAY. THERE WAS AT LEAST ONE REPORT OF A FATALITY IN NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM. AT 10 PM...WINDS HAVE DECREASED SOMEWHAT FROM THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF THIS MORNING AND MIDDAY. LAGUARDIA REPORTED THE HIGHEST WIND GUST FROM THE AIRPORT STATIONS TODAY OF 77 MPH AT 1041 AM...BUT SOME PLACES REPORTED UNOFFICIAL WIND GUSTS OF 80 MILES AN HOUR AT TOBAY BEACH ON THE SOUTH SHORE OF LONG ISLAND AND ALSO AT NORTHPORT ON THE NORTH SHORE. BUT BY THIS EVENING MOST PLACES WERE REPORTING SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR WITH HIGHER GUSTS. THE LOW PRESSURE CENTER OVER THE MARYLAND COAST WAS WEAKENING JUST A BIT...AND SHOWED INDICATIONS OF MOVING EASTWARD. WE DO EXPECT THAT WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO BE QUITE STRONG ALONG THE IMMEDIATE COAST AND OVER THE COASTAL WATERS...SO WE WILL CONTINUE THE HIGH WIND WARNING FOR THESE LOCATIONS...BUT DROP BACK TO A HIGH WIND ADVISORY OVER NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AWAY FROM THE IMMEDIATE COAST AND ROCKLAND AND UPPER WESTCHESTER COUNTIES. THESE STOUT NORTHEAST WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO CREATE WELL ABOVE NORMAL TIDES...AND THE HIGH TIDE CYCLE FOR SATURDAY MORNING WILL ALSO BE QUITE DANGEROUS. TIDES ARE EXPECTED TO BE 2 TO 4 FEET...POSSIBLY AS MUCH AS 5 FEET ABOVE NORMAL...WITH THE WORST FLOODING OCCURRING A COUPLE OF HOURS BEFORE AND A COUPLE OF HOURS AFTER HIGH TIDE. REMEMBER...SOME OF THE PROTECTION FROM THE OCEAN INCLUDING SEA WALLS DUNES AND SHORE LINE HAVE BEEN ERODED WEAKENED AND COMPROMISED. HIGH TIDE SATURDAY MORNING AT THE BATTERY IN NEW YORK CITY WILL BE AT 942 AM...AT PORT JEFFERSON AT 1235 PM...AT SHINNECOCK INLET ON LONG ISLAND AT 815 AM...AND AT SANDY HOOK AT 906 AM. WIDESPREAD RAIN TODAY DUMPED BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES...WITH SOME PLACES GETTING NEARLY 4 INCHES OF RAIN. THIS HAS SLACKED OFF A BIT...BUT WE WILL CONTINUE TO GET OCCASIONAL RAIN TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING... AND THE COLDER INLAND PLACES WILL CONTINUE TO GET OCCASIONAL FROZEN PRECIPITATION. WITH SERIOUS COASTAL FLOODING TONIGHT AND AGAIN SATURDAY MORNING... ALL PERSONS ARE ADVISED TO FOLLOW THE DIRECTION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND POLICE AND EVACUATE WHEN TOLD SO. ALL PERSONS WHO DON/T LIVE NEAR COASTAL AREAS ARE ADVISED TO AVOID DRIVING NEAR COASTAL AREAS AND DO NOT DRIVE AROUND BARRICADES. NEVER DRIVE INTO FLOODFED AREAS. MAKE SURE YOU KNOW THE WATER/S DEPTH BEFORE DRIVING INTO WATER...AS WELL AS THE INTEGRITY OF THE ROAD SURFACE. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED BY 1 AM SATURDAY MORNING.
Special weather statement, Dec 12, 1:00 AM EST, 0 minutes before
NYZ014>017-023-024-NJZ001-005-007-015-121100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - COASTAL STORM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 100 AM EST SAT DEC 12 1992 ...COASTAL FLOOD WARNING TONIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING... ...HIGH WIND WARNING TONIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING FOR THE IMMEDIATE COAST INCLUDING NEW YORK CITY AND LONG ISLAND... ...HIGH WIND ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND ROCKLAND AND UPPER WESTCHESTER TONIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING... ...WINTER STORM WARNING TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY FOR NORTHWESTERN NEW JERSEY AND INTERIOR SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK... ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY OVER NEARBY NORTHERN AND WESTERN SUBURBS... ...FLOOD WARNING TIL 5 AM SATURDAY MORNING FOR NORTHERN WESTCHESTER COUNTY... ...STORM WARNING FOR COASTAL WATERS TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY... THE COASTAL STORM OF DECEMBER 11TH CONTINUES INTO THE 12TH...AS COASTAL FLOODING PERSISTS AND PRECIPITATION LINGERS. THE LOW PRESSURE STORM CENTER WAS ALONG THE EASTERN MARYLAND SHORE...AND THE LATEST COMPUTER MODELS MOVE IT OFFSHORE AND OFF THE NEW JERSEY COAST DURING SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. STRONG WINDS WILL PERSIST OVER OUR NORTHERN NEW JERSEY - SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK REGION DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS. AT 1 AM...WINDS WERE STILL STRONG AT SOME PLACES. AT SHREWSBURY IN MONMOUTH COUNTY NEW JERSEY IT WAS REPORTED BY MONMOUTH COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS THAT A COUPLE OF TRANSFORMERS EXPLODED DUE TO THE STRONG WINDS...AND THERE WERE ADDITIONAL POWER OUTAGES. AT MIDNIGHT...WINDS AT LAGUARDIA WERE 33 MILES AN HOUR GUSTING TO 47 MPH. AT 1 AM THE LOW TIDE CYCLE WAS UNDERWAY...AND WATERS WERE RECEDING IN SOME COASTAL LOCATIONS FOR THE TIME BEING. HOWEVER...TIDES ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE AT 2 TO 4 FEET POSSIBLY AS MUCH AS 5 FEET ABOVE NORMAL FOR THE UPCOMING HIGH TIDES OF SATURDAY MORNING. REMEMBER... SOME OF THE PROTECTION FROM THE OCEAN INCLUDING SEA WALLS DUNES AND BEACHES HAVE BEEN ERODED WEAKENED AND COMPROMISED. HIGH TIDE SATURDAY MORNING AT THE BATTERY IN NEW YORK CITY WILL BE AT 942 AM... AT PORT JEFFERSON AT 1235 PM...AT SHINNECOCK INLET ON LONG ISLAND AT 815 AM...AT SANDY HOOK AT 906 AM...AND AT SEA BRIGHT AT 831 AM. WITH SERIOUS COASTAL FLOODING TONIGHT AND AGAIN SATURDAY MORNING... ALL PERSONS ARE ADVISED TO FOLLOW THE DIRECTION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND POLICE AND EVACUATE WHEN TOLD SO. ALL PERSONS WHO DON/T LIVE NEAR COASTAL AREAS ARE ADVISED TO AVOID DRIVING NEAR COASTAL AREAS AND DO NOT DRIVE AROUND BARRICADES. NEVER DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS. MAKE SURE YOU KNOW THE WATER/S DEPTH BEFORE DRIVING INTO WATER...AS WELL AS THE INTEGRITY OF THE ROAD SURFACE. FOR ESTUARIES SUCH AS THE HUDSON...HACKENSACK...PASSAIC...AND RARITAN RIVERS...TIDAL WATERS WILL BE BACKING UP INTO THESE RIVER SYSTEMS. SO AREA RESIDENTS WILL LIKEWISE NEED TO RESPOND TO RISING WATER BY EVACUATING TO HIGHER GROUND AS NEEDED AND AS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS DICTATE. SOME ROAD CLOSURES WERE STILL OCCURRING ON THE SAW MILL RIVER PARKWAY IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY SO A FLOOD WARNING WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT THERE OVERNIGHT. WINTER STORM WARNINGS CONTINUE FOR THE INTERIOR SECTIONS...MAINLY FOR THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS...WHERE ADDITIONAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS COULD BE A COUPLE OF INCHES OVERNIGHT...WITH MORE POSSIBLE SATURDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN DETERMINING THE TYPE OF PRECIPITATION... SO THERE COULD BE A MIX OF SNOW SLEET FREEZING RAIN AND RAIN UNTIL COLDER AIR FLOWS SOUTHWARD DURING SATURDAY. MORE PRECIPITATION IS LIKELY ACROSS OUR REGION OVERNIGHT AND SATURDAY...WITH LOWER PRECIPITATION CHANCES SATURDAY NIGHT. SKIES COULD PARTIALLY CLEAR SUNDAY WITH FAIR WEATHER EXPECTED FOR THE START OF THE COMING WEEK. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED BY 5 AM SATURDAY MORNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 11, 10:07 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bronx, Westchester | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.