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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS New York, NY

June 13, 1998Kings County, Queens County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 1998, 11:33 AM EDT for Kings County, Queens County, New York. It was in force for 117 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
Jun 13, 1998, 11:33 AM EDT (15:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1998, 1:30 PM EDT
In force
117 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Kings County, NY, Queens County, NY

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 90 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 1998-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 167 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 1998-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
167 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
440 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KNYC 131532
FFWNYC
NJC003-017-NYC005-047-061-081-085-131730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
1133 AM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK

   ...MANHATTAN
   ...BRONX
   ...STATEN ISLAND
   ...BROOKLYN
   ...QUEENS

IN NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY

   ...BERGEN COUNTY
   ...HUDSON COUNTY

* THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NEW YORK CITY METROPOLITAN AREA
BETWEEN 1130 AM AND 1230 PM PRODUCING UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN. THIS
WILL FLOOD AND CLOSE MANY ROADS IN THE AREA.

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
QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.


TONGUE

The office that day

Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 11:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXNassau, Suffolk2 hr
Jun 13, 11:33 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXBronx, New York117 min
Jun 13, 11:33 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXRichmond117 min
Jun 13, 12:01 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXWestchester119 min
Jun 13, 12:01 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXNassau119 min
Jun 13, 1:01 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXSuffolk119 min
Jun 13, 1:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXSuffolk2 hr
Jun 13, 3:59 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXSuffolk2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.