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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS New York, NY

July 1, 1995Richmond County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 1995, 7:01 PM EDT for Richmond County, New York. It was in force for 119 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 1, 1995, 7:01 PM EDT (23:01 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 1995, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
119 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 23:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 485 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
485 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
568 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KNYC 012303
FFWNYC
NYC085-020100-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
701 PM EDT SAT JUL 1 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM EDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK
 
   ...RICHMOND COUNTY (STATEN ISLAND)
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES UP 3.5 INCHES OF RAIN
HAVE FALLEN IN THE WESTERN PART OF STATEN ISLAND WITH UP TO 2 IN THE
PAST HOUR. MORE RAIN WILL BE MOVING IN FROM THE WEST WERE UP TO 5 INCHES
HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE RIVER IN NEW JERSEY.
 
PARTS OF THE WEST SHORE EXPRESSWAY MAY BE FLOODED AT THIS TIME.
 
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.
 
TONGUE

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

Local storm report, Jul 1, 6:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
600 PM EDT SAT JUL 1 1995

...PRELIMINARY STORM REPORTS FOR SATURDAY JUL 1 1995...

TIME   COUNTY       CITY            ST     EVENT

504 PM UNION        ELIZABETH       NJ     0.75 IN RAIN IN 15 MINUTES
519 PM UNION        ELIZABETH       NJ     1.40 IN RAIN IN 1 HR 15
                                                           MINUTES
526 PM UNION        ELIZABETH       NJ     2.04 IN RAIN IN 35 MINUTES
545 PM UNION        ELIZABETH       NJ     2.50 IN RAIN IN 55 MINUTES
548 PM UNION        ELIZABETH       NJ     2.90 IN RAIN STILL RAINING
                                           LIGHTLY. UNDERPASSES
                                           FLOODED...PEOPLE RESCUED
                                           FROM CAR ROOFTOPS ON SOUTH
                                           ST. HEAVY FLOODING
                                           THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

ALL REPORTS FROM NWS SKYWARN SPOTTERS.

TONGUE

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.