Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000

Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS New York, NY

April 21, 20008 counties in New York; Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Apr 21, 2000, 5:05 PM EDT for 8 counties in New York; Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Apr 21, 2000, 5:05 PM EDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired
Apr 21, 2000, 11:00 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT, Bronx County, NY, Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, New York County, NY, Queens County, NY, Richmond County, NY, Suffolk County, NY, Westchester County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 46 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 2000-04-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-04-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 261 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
800 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
261 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
354 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 
WGUS51 KOKX 212106
FFWOKX
CTC001-009-NYC005-047-059-061-081-085-103-119-220300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
505 PM EDT FRI APR 21 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS FOR...
  NEW YORK CITY AND THE BOROUGHS...
  NASSAU COUNTY...
  WESTERN SUFFOLK COUNTY...
  SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD AND NEW HAVEN COUNTIES

* UNTIL 1100 PM EDT...

* AT 500 PM EDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE
  TO MOVE ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.

* EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF
HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE
TO HIGHER GROUND.

.END/

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN UPTON NY.

LAT...LON 4133 7288 4075 7307 4059 7415 4096 7393

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 2000Flash Flood Warnings in Connecticut, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.