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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2006, 9:39 PM EDT for Richmond County, New York; Union County, New Jersey. It was in force for 96 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
- Jun 1, 2006, 9:39 PM EDT (01:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2006, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 96 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Union County, NJ, Richmond County, NY
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:39 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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 445 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1043 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 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 020141 FFWOKX NJC039-NYC085-020315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 939 PM EDT THU JUN 1 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... RICHMOND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK... UNION COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY... * UNTIL 1115 PM EDT... * AT 934 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR AVENEL...OR ABOUT NEAR ISELIN...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO CLARK...UNION...TOTTENVILLE...LINDEN...HUGUENOT...ELIZABETH...TODT HILL...TOMPKINSVILLE AND VERRAZANO-NARROWS BRIDGE. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES HAVE ALREADY FALLEN ACROSS THE REGION...WITH AN ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1 TO 2 INCHES POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. 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. LAT...LON 4070 7445 4050 7449 4050 7402 4068 7406 $$ NV
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 5:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | OKX | Bronx, Kings, New York, Orange, Putnam, Richmond and 3 more | 23 hr |
| Jun 2, 4:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond | 116 min |
| Jun 2, 3:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bergen | 115 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 2006Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 2006Every flash flood warning in 2006
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.