Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Oct 11, 2005, 5:41 PM EDT for Suffolk 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 11, 2005, 5:41 PM EDT (21:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 11, 2005, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Suffolk County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 458 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KOKX 112141 FFWOKX NYC103-120045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 541 PM EDT TUE OCT 11 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN SUFFOLK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK. * UNTIL 845 PM EDT. * AT 536 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR WAS ESTIMATING RAINFALL OF 1 TO 2 INCHES SINCE 430 PM...WITH AT LEAST 1 MORE HOUR OF HEAVY RAINFALL EXPECTED. * AREAS MOST LIKELY TO SEE FLOODING DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS WILL BE THOSE EAST OF THE WILLIAM FLOYD PARKWAY TO RIVERHEAD AND HAMPTON BAYS. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES... DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM... EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 4117 7224 4107 7182 4074 7279 4098 7289 $$ REYNOLDS
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KOKX 120020 FFSOKX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 820 PM EDT TUE OCT 11 2005 NYC103-120045- SUFFOLK NY- 818 PM EDT TUE OCT 11 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN SUFFOLK COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... WHILE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE OVER PORTIONS OF EASTERN SUFFOLK COUNTY...NO REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LOCAL MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...ESPECIALLY IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SUCH AS ALONG SOUND AVENUE. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE LATER TONIGHT AND ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS MAY BE NEEDED AT THAT TIME. IF FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED...PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. LAT...LON 4117 7224 4107 7182 4074 7279 4098 7289 $$ REYNOLDS
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.