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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS New York, NY

July 6, 2005Hudson County, New Jersey; Kings County, New York County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 2005, 7:01 PM EDT for Hudson County, New Jersey; Kings County, New York County, New York. It was in force for 89 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 6, 2005, 7:01 PM EDT (23:01 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 2005, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
89 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Hudson County, NJ, Kings County, NY, New York County, NY

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 95 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 12:00Z on 2005-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2005-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
724 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 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 062303
FFWOKX
NJC017-NYC047-061-070030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY
701 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HUDSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY.
  KINGS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK.
  NEW YORK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK.

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT.

* AT 657 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.     
  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED AROUND 2 INCHES OF RAIN AN HOUR ACROSS     
  THE WARNED AREA IS LIKELY.

* SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE
  WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH
  FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING
  INCLUDE...FLATBUSH...HOBOKEN...MIDTOWN MANHATTAN...BATTERY PARK...
  BENSONHURST...BROOKLYN HEIGHTS...CANARSIE...UNION CITY...
  GREENPOINT...GREENWICH VILLAGE...GUTTENBERG AND NORTH BERGEN.

DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED ROADS AS THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU 
REALIZE.

LAT...LON 4078 7397 4064 7387 4063 7392 4060 7398
      4069 7407 4080 7405

$$

MET
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS71 KOKX 062341
FFSOKX

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY
740 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2005

NJC017-NYC047-061-062350-
HUDSON NJ-NEW YORK NY-KINGS NY-
740 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2005

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR HUDSON...KINGS AND
NEW YORK COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVY RAINS HAVE DIMINISHED AND MOVED 
SOUTH OF THE AREA...ENDING THE THREAT OF FLOODING.

IF FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED...PLEASE REPORT IT TO THE NATIONAL 
WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 4078 7397 4064 7387 4063 7392 4060 7398
      4069 7407 4080 7405

$$

MET

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 6:01 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXBergen, Essex, Passaic, Union119 min
Jul 6, 7:04 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXRichmond86 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 2005Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 2005Every flash flood warning in 2005

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.