3 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS New York, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 2, 2:53 AM EST, 5 hours 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 353 AM EDT MON SEP 2 2002 UPDT...WL END PCPN ABT 3 HRS FASTER THAN PRVS THINKING BASED ON CRNT RDR/STLT LOOPS... ...337 AM AFD... SHORT TERM: WHILE MDLS HV COME INTO A LTL BETTER AGREEMENT (FINALLY)...AM STL NOT CONVINCED THAT THEY ARE TOTALLY THE WAY TO GO. LTST RDR MOSAIC AND IR STLT LOOPS SHWG THAT BRK IN RA N OF SFC LO ALG MID-ATLC IS SLOWLY APCHG CWA. SFC LO SHUD MOV IN GENL DIR OF LI BASED ON BEST PRES FALLS HEADING FOR LI S SHORE ATTM. DO XPCT RA TO CONT BYND 12Z ACRS MUCH OF THE AREA...FAR NW CWA MAY GET LTL OR NO MORE RAFL BUT DONT WANT TO OMIT SINCE I DO THINK WELL WRAP SOME RA BACK INTO THAT AREA. WL TAPER POPS FM 100 ERN ZNS TO 60 NYZ067 (ORANGE CO). WL KEEPMENT OF LCLLY HVY RAFL FOR THE AM AS STL A FAIRLY DECENT BAND OF HVR RA SRN PTN OF APCHG RA AREA. SKIES CLR OUT SUM TNGT BUT THINK WNDS WL STAY UP JUST ENUF TO KEEP FG FM FORMING. TUE LOOKS MILD W/ DECENT SS FOR THE 1ST TIME IN A FEW DAYS. FM LLVL WND FLOW W-SW...GENLY TOOK HIER OF GDNC NMBRS FOR TUE. LONG TERM: WK CDFNT MOVS THRU RGN LT WED NITE W/ SCT SHRAS. THEN A PROLONGED PD OF NICE/SEASONABLE WX FOR THE REST OF THE WK. LTL IN WAY OF SGFNT CHGS TP PRVS LONG RANGE GRIDS/TEXT PRODUCTS. MARINE: CONT SCA ON OCEAN WTRS FOR WNDS AND SEAS. AT LAST CHEK...44025 STL HOWLING AT 23G29KT W/ 8 WVS AND 30KT SUSTAINED AT ALSN6. XPCT WNDS TO COME DOWN BLO SCA CRIT LT THIS AM OR ERLY THIS AFTN...BUT SEAS LKLY TO RMN ABV 5 CRIT AT LST THRU THIS EVNG. WL ALSO CONT MINIMAL SCA FOR NY HRBR AND LI SOUND. WRKCWF AVBL FOR REQ AND COMMENTS...WRKZFP TO FOLLOW SHORTLY. FINALS GONE NLT 0800 UTC. PRELIM CCF NMBRS TO PONDER... EWR 75 65 86 69 / 70 10 10 30 MGJ 71 57 83 63 / 60 10 10 30 DXR 71 59 82 65 / 70 10 10 30 NYC 73 66 84 68 / 80 10 10 30 ISP 71 64 82 68 / 90 10 0 30 GON 70 63 77 67 / 90 20 0 30 THE OKX CREW... PUBLIC/MARINE...REYNOLDS NOWCAST/AVIATION...HIRSCH CT...NONE. NY...NONE. NJ...NONE. MARINE...SCA ALL WATERS...ANZ355-353-350-338-335-330.
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 85 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:59 UTC.
3 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Spotters reported significant widespread street flooding in Woodside, including a stalled car trapped on a flooded street.
A spotter reported significant street flooding in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn and on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (278). Another spotter reported flooding on a few parts of the Belt Parkway.
Local police reported that Larchmont Park was flooded.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New York in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in New York, September 2002
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5320514, 5320515, 5320516.