Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 1995, 2:53 AM EDT for Richmond County, New York. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 1995, 2:53 AM EDT (06:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 1995, 4:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Richmond County, NY
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 1236 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1177 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNYC 280653 FFWNYC NJC013-017-039-NYC047-059-081-085-280800- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 253 AM EDT FRI JUL 28 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 AM EDT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY ...ESSEX COUNTY...HUDSON COUNTY...UNION COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK ...KINGS COUNTY...NASSAU COUNTY...QUEENS COUNTY ...RICHMOND COUNTY AT 250 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING EAST TO WEST ACROSS CENTRAL NEW JERSEY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS OF 60 MPH IN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. HAYES &
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 8:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Putnam, Westchester | 49 min |
| Jul 28, 1:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Kings, Queens | 2 hr |
| Jul 28, 1:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Richmond | 2 hr |
| Jul 28, 2:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Nassau, Queens | 67 min |
| Jul 28, 2:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Kings | 67 min |
| Jul 28, 2:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Kings, Nassau, Queens | 67 min |
| Jul 28, 2:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Richmond | 67 min |
| Jul 28, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange, Rockland | 65 min |
| Jul 28, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Putnam | 55 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995
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.