Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 2002, 3:39 PM EDT for Bergen County, New Jersey; Bronx County, New York County, New York. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 2002, 3:39 PM EDT (19:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2002, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bergen County, NJ, Bronx County, NY, New York County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:42 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 2022 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1009 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KOKX 161939 FFWOKX NJC003-NYC005-061-162145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 339 PM EDT FRI AUG 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL BERGEN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...HACKENSACK...BERGENFIELD BRONX COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF TREMONT NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MOTT HAVEN * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 336 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER RIVERDALE...OR ABOUT 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF EAST TREMONT... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR... 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF CO-OP CITY AT 350 PM EDT DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN UPTON NY. LAT...LON 4088 7413 4077 7393 4090 7378 4098 7393
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KOKX 162149 FFSOKX NJC003-NYC005-061-162245- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 545 PM EDT FRI AUG 16 2002 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BERGEN...MANHATTAN AND BRONX COUNTIES WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 545 PM EDT... RAIN HAS ENDED ACROSS THE REGION. FLASH FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED ON MANY ROAD WAYS IN THE VICINITY OF THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE. THESE FLOOD WATERS WILL SLOWLY SUBSIDE OVER THE NEXT HOUR. 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. JST
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen | 41 min |
| Aug 16, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen | 35 min |
| Aug 16, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen | 43 min |
| Aug 16, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 57 min |
| Aug 16, 3:24 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 66 min | |
| Aug 16, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Nassau | 51 min |
| Aug 16, 4:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 83 min | |
| Aug 16, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Westchester | 43 min |
| Aug 16, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Nassau, Queens | 44 min |
| Aug 16, 4:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Nassau, Queens | 114 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 2002Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002
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.