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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 3, 1996, 7:19 PM EDT for Richmond County, New York. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 1996, 7:19 PM EDT (23:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1996, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 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 23:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 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
- 584 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNYC 032320 FFWNYC NYC085-040015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 719 PM EDT WED JUL 3 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM EDT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK ...RICHMOND COUNTY AT 720 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN OVER STATEN ISLAND. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES IN THE PAST HOUR ACCORDING TO RADAR ESTIMATES. HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE RESULTING IN THE FLOODING OF ROADS...LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS 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. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. GOUDSWARD
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 3, 3:26 PM EDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 320 PM EDT WED JUL 3 1996 ...SEVERE WEATHER IN NORTHERN NEW HAVEN COUNTY EARLY THIS MORNING... A LINE OF EAST SOUTHEAST MOVING THUNDERSTORMS THAT PASSED ACROSS CONNECTICUT THIS MORNING PRODUCED SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE IN THE WATERBURY AND WOLCOTT COMMUNITIES OF EXTREME NORTHERN NEW HAVEN COUNTY. A TEAM OF METEOROLOGISTS FROM THE FORECAST OFFICE AT UPTON NEW YORK IS CURRENTLY ON THEIR WAY TO THE REGION AS PART OF AN OFFICIAL DAMAGE SURVEY. BASED ON REPORTS FROM LOCAL OFFICIALS...TELEVISION EMPLOYEES AND SKYWARN SPOTTERS...IT APPEARS THAT A DOWNBURST PRODUCED THE DAMAGE OVER THE BUCKS HILL SECTION OF WATERBURY THAN HELPED SPAWN A TORNADO OVER WEST CENTRAL WOLCOTT. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT A "BOW" IN THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CAUSE THE INTENSIFICATION OF A THUNDERSTORM ON THE NORTH END OF THE BOW. THIS STORM MOVED ACROSS THE WATERBURY AND WOLCOTT AREA. THE FOLLOWING IS WHAT IS KNOWN AT THIS TIME. THE EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN 635 AND 645 AM BASED ON RADAR. NO INJURIES HAVE BEEN REPORTED. TOTAL DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. SEVERAL REPORTS OF MARBLE SIZED HAIL FROM THE PUBLIC WITH A REPORT OF TENNIS BALL SIZED HAIL HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. PROPERTY DAMAGE WAS MOSTLY ROOF AND TREE DAMAGE. SEVERAL THOUSANDS LOST POWER IN THE AREA. EXTENSIVE ROOF DAMAGE TO THE WATERBURY HIGH SCHOOL GYM WAS DONE. REPORTS OF A LARGE BUILDING COLLAPSE IN WATERBURY AT AN OIL COMPANY WAS RECEIVED. A SKYWARN SPOTTER/PRIVATE METEOROLOGIST/HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER INVESTIGATION OF THE DAMAGE IN WALCOTT INDICATES DISTINCT TORNADIC DAMAGE ALONG BEACH ROAD. A PATH...TWISTED DEBRIS AND OPPOSITE FALLING DIRECTIONS OF THE TREES ON EITHER SIDE OF THE PATH WAS OBSERVED. A FINAL REPORT WILL BE ISSUED LATER TONIGHT WHEN THE DAMAGE SURVEY RETURNS. THE NWS WISHES TO THANK THE LOCAL NEW HAVEN TELEVISION STATION AND LOCAL OFFICIALS FOR THEIR COOPERATION DURING THIS EVENT. TONGUE
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 10:42 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Westchester | 2 hr |
| Jul 3, 4:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Queens | 2 hr |
| Jul 3, 4:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Nassau | 115 min |
| Jul 3, 4:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Rockland | 115 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996
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.