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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS New York, NY

June 4, 2007Kings County, Nassau County, Queens County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 2007, 5:58 AM EDT for Kings County, Nassau County, Queens County, New York. It was in force for 6 hr. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 2007, 5:58 AM EDT (09:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2007, 12:00 PM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS New York, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, Queens County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:01 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 4, 9:25 AM EDT	FLASH FLOOD	1 W Flatbush, NY	FLOODING ON PROSPECT XPWY NORTHBOUND AT FORT HAMILTON PKWY, RIGHT AND CENTER LANES BLOCKED
Jun 4, 10:17 AM EDT	FLASH FLOOD	5 W Jamaica, NY	JACKIE ROBINSON PARKWAY - CLOSED AT MYRTLE AVE IN FOREST PARK QUEENS DUE TO FLOODING.
Jun 4, 10:51 AM EDT	FLASH FLOOD	1 N Flushing, NY	WHITESTONE XPWY NORTHBOUND AT LINDEN PL, LEFT LANE BLOCKED WITH FLOODING
Jun 4, 11:56 AM EDT	FLASH FLOOD	1 W Elmont, NY	FLOODING ON CROSS ISLAND PKWY NORTHBOUND BETWEEN LINDEN BLVD AND JAMAICA AVE IN THE LEFT LANE
Jun 4, 11:56 AM EDT	FLASH FLOOD	3 Se Flushing, NY	FLOODING ON GRAND CENTRAL PKWY EASTBOUND AT JEWEL AVE, RIGHT AND CENTER LANES BLOCKED

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 81 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 646 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 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 040959
FFWOKX
NJC003-013-017-031-039-NYC005-047-059-061-081-085-119-041600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY
558 AM EDT MON JUN 4 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BERGEN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY...
  ESSEX COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY...
  HUDSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY...
  SOUTHEASTERN PASSAIC COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY...
  UNION COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY...
  BRONX COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK...
  KINGS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK...
  NASSAU COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK...
  NEW YORK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK...
  QUEENS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK...
  RICHMOND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK...
  SOUTH CENTRAL WESTCHESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK...

* UNTIL NOON EDT.

* AT 600 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
HEAVY RAIN MOVING TOWARD THE WARNED AREA.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  HICKSVILLE...MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS...UNION CITY...TETERBORO...
  ORADELL...HAWTHORNE...FORT LEE...FAIRFIELD...ENGLEWOOD...
  WOODBURY...WHITESTONE...SCARSDALE...SANDS POINT...RIVERDALE...PORT
  WASHINGTON...MANHASSET...JACKSON HEIGHTS...HARLEM...CO-OP CITY...
  CITY ISLAND...BROOKVILLE...BRONXVILLE...BAYVILLE...BAYSIDE AND
  ASTORIA.

THE AREA HAS ALREADY RECEIVED 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL. ADDITIONAL 
RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AN INCH OR TWO IS POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. 
RADAR INDICATES A SLOW MOVING MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN BAND 
APPROACHING 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.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE.

LAT...LON 4055 7446 4051 7419 4060 7341 4088 7350
      4099 7366 4098 7427

$$
PW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 5:58 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond and 1 more	6 hr

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.