Alert archive / Connecticut / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000

Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS New York, NY

April 21, 2000Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut; Suffolk County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Apr 21, 2000, 11:35 PM EDT for Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut; Suffolk County, New York. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 21, 2000, 11:35 PM EDT (03:35 UTC)
Expired
Apr 22, 2000, 4:00 AM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, CT, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Suffolk County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:36 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 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 59 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 00:00Z on 2000-04-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2000-04-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 805 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
472 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
805 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1185 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KOKX 220334
FFWOKX
CTC007-009-011-NYC103-220800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
1135 PM EDT FRI APR 21 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS EXTENDED THE

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS AND URBAN AREAS FOR...
  NEW HAVEN...MIDDLESEX...AND NEW LONDON COUNTIES IN SOUTHERN
  CONNECTICUT...AND SUFFOLK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK...

* UNTIL 400 AM EDT...

* AT 1130 PM EDT FLASH FLOODING WAS OCCURRING IN THE WARNED AREA.

* THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO REDEVELOP OVER THE WARNED AREA...
  RESULTING IN EXCESSIVE RAINFALL.

IN NEW HAVEN COUNTY...NUMEROUS SMALL STREAMS HAVE OVERFLOWED THEIR
BANKS. THE QUINNIPIAC RIVER IN WALLINGFORD HAS SHOWED A RAPID RISE
AND IS THREATENING TO OVERFLOW ITS BANKS.

IN WESTERN SUFFOLK COUNTY FOUR TO SEVEN INCHES OF RAIN HAS CAUSED
WIDESPREAD URBAN FLOODING.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.

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 4152 7196 4096 7233 4073 7334 4142 7297

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 21, 9:58 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXSuffolk16 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Connecticut, 2000Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 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.