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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS New York, NY

August 11, 2000Westchester County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 11, 2000, 1:40 PM EDT for Westchester County, New York. It was in force for 65 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
Aug 11, 2000, 1:40 PM EDT (17:40 UTC)
Expired
Aug 11, 2000, 2:45 PM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Westchester County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 81 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 2000-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 229 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 2000-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 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
229 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1136 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-4 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 111742
FFWOKX
NYC119-111845-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
140 PM EDT FRI AUG 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

  IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK STATE...
     NORTH CENTRAL WESTCHESTER...

* UNTIL 245 PM EDT...

* AT 140 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA. RAIN WILL
  CONTINUE TO FALL AT THE RATE OF AROUND 2 INCHES PER HOUR AND CAUSE
  WIDESPREAD FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.

PEOPLE IN AND AROUND THE VICINITY OF YORKTOWN HEIGHTS SHOULD PREPARE
FOR FLOODING.

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.

$$

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 4131 7373 4122 7372 4122 7386 4131 7386

GC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 11, 1:28 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXSuffolk62 min
Aug 11, 2:28 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXPutnam62 min
Aug 11, 3:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXPutnam, Westchester60 min
Aug 11, 4:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXRockland39 min
Aug 11, 4:56 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXRockland2 hr
Aug 11, 6:40 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXBronx, Westchester95 min

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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.