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Flash Flood Warning 46, NWS New York, NY

December 17, 2000Orange County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Dec 17, 2000, 10:30 AM EST for Orange County, New York. It was in force for 3 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
Dec 17, 2000, 10:30 AM EST (15:30 UTC)
Expired
Dec 17, 2000, 1:30 PM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Orange County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 133 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 135 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 2000-12-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 313 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 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 2000-12-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 582 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
313 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
453 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
92 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
582 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
603 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.1

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KOKX 171531
FFWOKX
NYC071-171830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
1030 AM EST SUN DEC 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

  IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK STATE
  ORANGE

* UNTIL 130 PM EST.

* AT 1028 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
ANOTHER BATCH OF HEAVY RAIN HEADING INTO ORANGE COUNTY. THIS NEW
BATCH OF RAIN WHEN CONSIDERED ALONG WITH EARLIER RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF
AROUND 3 INCHES WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING.

* SOME FLOOD PRONE LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...

SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RAPIDLY FLOOD...POSSIBLY WASHING OUT
ROADS AND FLOODING NEARBY LOW AREAS.

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 4158 7404 4116 7424 4144 7474 4161 7433

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 17, 11:38 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXRichmond37 min
Dec 17, 11:53 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningOKXRockland3 hr
Dec 17, 12:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXPutnam, Westchester40 min
Dec 17, 12:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXRockland40 min
Dec 17, 12:32 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXQueens28 min
Dec 17, 1:26 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXNassau, Suffolk34 min
Dec 17, 2:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXSuffolk27 min
Dec 17, 3:00 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningOKXRockland3 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.