Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 2002, 4:51 PM EDT for Nassau County, Queens County, New York. It was in force for 114 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 2002, 4:51 PM EDT (20:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2002, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Nassau County, NY, Queens County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 74 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 162051 FFWOKX NYC059-081-162245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 448 PM EDT FRI AUG 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NASSAU AND QUEENS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK * UNTIL 645 PM EDT * AT 444 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR KENNEDY AIRPORT MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ATLANTIC BEACH...BALDWIN... CEDARHURST...ELMONT...FAR ROCKAWAY...GLEN OAKS... HEMPSTEAD...HOWARD BEACH...LIDO BEACH... OCEANSIDE...OZONE PARK AND WANTAGH. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. $$ TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. LAT...LON 4071 7389 4055 7380 4060 7343 4092 7347 JST
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KOKX 162139 FFSOKX NYC059-081-162230- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 533 PM EDT FRI AUG 16 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR NASSAU AND QUEENS COUNTY... AT 525 PM EDT...THE RAIN HAD ENDED OR WAS ENDING ACROSS SOUTHERN QUEENS AND NASSAU COUNTIES. FLASH FLOODING...CAUSED BY THE 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN FROM THIS AFTERNOONS THUNDERSTORMS WILL SLOWLY SUBSIDE OVER THE NEXT HOURS. 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, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 57 min |
| Aug 16, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bronx, New York | 41 min |
| Aug 16, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bronx, New York | 35 min |
| Aug 16, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bronx, Kings, Queens, Westchester | 43 min |
| Aug 16, 3:24 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 66 min | |
| Aug 16, 3:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bronx, New York | 2 hr |
| 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 |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 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.