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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS New York, NY

June 7, 2000Bronx County, New York County, Westchester County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 7, 2000, 12:22 AM EDT for Bronx County, New York County, Westchester 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
Jun 7, 2000, 12:22 AM EDT (04:22 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 2000, 3:15 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bronx County, NY, New York County, NY, Westchester County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:23 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 86 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 2000-06-07Temperature 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°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2000-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 244 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
482 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
244 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
385 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 070425
FFWOKX
NYC005-061-119-070715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
1222 AM EDT WED JUN 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BRONX COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK...
  NEW YORK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK...
  SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK...

* UNTIL 315 AM EDT...

* AT 1217 AM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF
  VERY HEAVY RAIN TRAINING OVER THE ABOVE MENTIONED AREAS.
  THIS RAIN WILL PERSIST AS IT ROTATES SOUTHWARD FOR ANOTHER COUPLE
  OF HOURS.

$$
PW

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT A?GENCY
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
UPTON NY.

LAT...LON 4081 7396 4083 7386 4103 7367 4111 7387

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 11:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXOrange3 hr
Jun 7, 2:42 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXOrange3 hr

Nearby

Flash 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.