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Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Dec 17, 2000, 3:00 PM EST for 4 counties in New Jersey; Rockland 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, 3:00 PM EST (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 17, 2000, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Rockland County, NY
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 112 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KOKX 172005 COR FFWNYC NJC039-NYC087-172300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING ****CORRECTION COUNTY CODES**** NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 300 PM EST SUN DEC 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS EXTENDED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY UNION IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK STATE ROCKLAND * UNTIL 600 PM EST. * AT 300 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED PERIODS OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN CONTINUE TO PASS OVER THE WARNED AREA IN ADVANCE OF A COLD FRONT. THE WARNED AREA HAS RECEIVED 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN EARLIER IN THE DAY CAUSING SMALL STREAM FLOODING. * SEVERAL STREAMS IN THE WARNING AREA ARE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE... THE MAHWAH RIVER AT SUFFERN NY AND THE RAHWAY RIVER AT SPRINGFIELD NJ ARE CURRENTLY ABOVE FLOOD STAGE AND CONTINUE TO RISE. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...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. $$ REPORT RSEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN UPTON NY. LAT...LON 4120 7398 4069 7420 4062 7443 4118 7421
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS51 KOKX 172000 FFWOKX NJC003-013-031-039-NYC087-172300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 300 PM EST SUN DEC 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS EXTENDED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY UNION IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK STATE ROCKLAND * UNTIL 600 PM EST. * AT 300 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED PERIODS OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN CONTINUE TO PASS OVER THE WARNED AREA IN ADVANCE OF A COLD FRONT. THE WARNED AREA HAS RECEIVED 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN EARLIER IN THE DAY CAUSING SMALL STREAM FLOODING. * SEVERAL STREAMS IN THE WARNING AREA ARE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE... THE MAHWAH RIVER AT SUFFERN NY AND THE RAHWAY RIVER AT SPRINGFIELD NJ ARE CURRENTLY ABOVE FLOOD STAGE AND CONTINUE TO RISE. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. $$ 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 4120 7398 4069 7420 4062 7443 4118 7421
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 10:46 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen, Essex, Passaic | 24 min |
| Dec 17, 10:46 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Union | 24 min |
| Dec 17, 11:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Essex, Union | 37 min |
| Dec 17, 11:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen, Passaic | 37 min |
| Dec 17, 11:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Hudson | 37 min |
| Dec 17, 11:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bergen, Essex, Passaic, Union | 3 hr |
| Dec 17, 10:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Orange | 3 hr |
| Dec 17, 11:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Richmond | 37 min |
| Dec 17, 12:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Putnam, Westchester | 40 min |
| Dec 17, 12:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Rockland | 40 min |
| Dec 17, 12:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Queens | 28 min |
| Dec 17, 1:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Nassau, Suffolk | 34 min |
| Dec 17, 2:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Suffolk | 27 min |
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.