ag3 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Serious training right over Central Queens. Just drove through there on my way back from appointment. Highways and streets are flooded. Back at work in Bayside, loud thunder, CTG lightning and some rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ag3 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Flash flood warning is probably warranted over the training cells in Queens and parts of Brooklyn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cfa Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 I believe I saw a funnel cloud, it appeared to be rotating and then it started heading down before going back up and disappearing. If it wasn't a funnel cloud it certainly looked like one to me. The sun is out over me but I keep seeing lightning bolts so I'm not leaving just yet. I'm not trying to get struck by lightning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ag3 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Flash flood warning is probably warranted over the training cells in Queens and parts of Brooklyn. LOL. Flash Flood Warning just issued: BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 1156 AM EDT WED AUG 1 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... QUEENS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK... RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND) COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK... KINGS (BROOKLYN) COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK... * UNTIL 200 PM EDT... * AT 1147 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WARNED AREA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... AT 1154 AM...RADAR ESTIMATES 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAD ALREADY FALLEN NEAR THE VERRAZANO NARROWS BRIDGE...AND ALSO IN THE FOREST HILLS AND JAMAICA SECTIONS OF QUEENS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE 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. FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE USUALLY DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nycsnow Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Just got dark here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ag3 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Cells expanding a little north now and its an absolute deluge in Bayside. Flash Flood Warnings will probably be expanded north in the coming minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ict1523 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 I drove through central Queens and i have honestly never seen it pour harder in my life. Downhill streets just had inches of water roaring down and i could barely see inches in front of me. Insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ag3 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 I drove through central Queens and i have honestly never seen it pour harder in my life. Downhill streets just had inches of water roaring down and i could barely see inches in front of me. Insane. Yup. Serious flooding event is unfolding here; especially if these training cells continue for much longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ict1523 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Yup. Serious flooding event is unfolding here; especially if these training cells continue for much longer. I was driving to work in Bayside and the torrents followed me, seems to have calmed down a bit in the last minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wxnyc Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Anybody around the 16 ave and 65 street area of Brooklyn , any flooding? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ag3 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 I was driving to work in Bayside and the torrents followed me, seems to have calmed down a bit in the last minute. Getting reports of streets that are not passable around the St. John's campus in Queens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ict1523 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Getting reports of streets that are not passable around the St. John's campus in Queens. Would not be surprised. The worst i had was around kew gardens hills and it was literally as if that area was under a huge bath tub faucet. Just a wall of water slamming down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluewave Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Radar estimates 2-2.5 in around Kew Gardens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 source of instability? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorEaster27 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 band of dark clouds and thunder to my north all morning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcad1 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 crazy how in carle place long island it's partly sunny at times.. Everything went to my North,this year is crazy its like a bubble is over this area of Nassau Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkyfork Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 there's an outflow boundary moving NW from coastal NJ... it should trigger more activity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isotherm Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Just drove through incredible torrential rains in Red Bank/Tinton Falls area - very low visibility and flash flooding on roadways. Already 0.78" of rain here. Decent amount of loud thunder with these cells as well the past hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sock Puppet Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 I'm on 9th and 39 st and all good here. It's stopped raining but should resume in a few. Anybody around the 16 ave and 65 street area of Brooklyn , any flooding? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkyfork Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 i picked up .4" this morning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blizzardof09 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 crazy how in carle place long island it's partly sunny at times.. Everything went to my North,this year is crazy its like a bubble is over this area of Nassau How you think i feel where i live in southwest suffolk, ive practically given up the ghost with severe weather this year. Today is producing some very heavy rainfall rates in those training storms currently, although where i am there probably gonna miss me, the people who get under them already have seen some downright torrents so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkyfork Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 tcu and small anvils going up to my east and west Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nycsnow Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Pouring here in gravesend Brooklyn, street flooding on bad drainage roads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 heavy to occasionally torrential with ponding on the roadways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sock Puppet Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Finally seeing some lightning as the next batch moves in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chazman Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 LIE closed both ways near me in Fresh Meadows (near St Francis Prep). No traffic at all going eastbound...an empty road. Westbound is dead stopped. People trying to drive the other way on grassy hill on side of road...crazy. Don't remember seeing it like this for a rain event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluewave Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 1225 PM FLASH FLOOD KEW GARDENS 40.72N 73.83W 08/01/2012 QUEENS NY BROADCAST MEDIA E GRAND CENTRAL PKWY AT KEW GARDENS INTERCHANGE CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING 1235 PM FLASH FLOOD 1 ESE CLEARVIEW EXPRESS 40.74N 73.78W 08/01/2012 QUEENS NY BROADCAST MEDIA LI EXPY AT FRANCIS LEWIS BLVD CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING 1237 PM FLASH FLOOD 1 ENE RICHMOND HILL 40.70N 73.82W 08/01/2012 QUEENS NY BROADCAST MEDIA S VAN WYCK EXPY AT HILLSIDE AVE CLOSED DUE TO FLOODIN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathermedic Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Grand Central Pky EB closed at Jewel Ave, L.I. Expy closed both ways at Utopia Pky. Van Wyck Expy at Main St....all due to flooding with numerous autos stuck in high water. Also reports of basements flooded in the area of 71 Av and 176 St. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wxnyc Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 I'm on 9th and 39 st and all good here. It's stopped raining but should resume in a few. Thanks , I'm up in the Catskills always a bit nervous about my basement flooding, last summer I had issues with the big storm before Irene. If you get serious rains please post. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blizzardof09 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 The rainfall rates with these storms are absolutely incredible. I expect totals today to reach 3" in some spots with the way things are shaping up currently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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