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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS New York, NY

June 1, 2006Richmond County, New York; Union County, New Jersey

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2006-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 445 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 00:00Z on 2006-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 5:16 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchOKXBronx, Kings, New York, Orange, Putnam, Richmond and 3 more23 hr
Jun 2, 4:19 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXKings, New York, Queens, Richmond116 min
Jun 2, 3:05 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXBergen115 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.