Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1987
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Apr 13, 1987, 8:00 AM EDT for Greene County, New York. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 13, 1987, 8:00 AM EDT (12:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 1987, 12:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greene County, NY
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 648 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KALB 131213 COR FFWALB NYC039-131600- BULLETIN--EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED-CORRECTION- FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 808 AM EDT MON APR 13 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1200 PM NOON EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NEW YORK...GREENE BY 7 AM THIS MORNING HEAVY RAINFALL HAD BEEN REPORTED BY MANY AREAS IN GREENE COUNTY. THIS RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE AT LEAST THROUGH LATE MORNING...CAUSING SMALL STREAMS TO OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS. CARIO IN GREENE COUNTY HAD REPORTED SEVERAL SMALL STREAMS ALREADY FLOODING IN THAT AREA AT 730 AM. OTHER STREAMS ARE BANKFULL...AND RECENT HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE THE RIVERS TO CONTINUE RISING. . IF YOU LIVE IN THIS AREA MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE A QUICK WAY TO HIGH GROUND THAT WON/T BE CUTOFF BY RAPIDLY RISING WATERS. DON/T DRIVE OVER FLOODED ROADS AND BRIDGES. WATER ON ROADS MAY HIDE DANGEROUS WASHOUTS. ALSO..DON/T TRY TO WADE ACROSS STREAMS OR RIVERS WHERE THE WATER IS HIGH. YOU COULD EASILY BE WASHED AWAY. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS IN A FLOODED AREA..ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND GO TO HIGH GROUND. RAPIDLY RISING WATER COULD SWEEP IT AWAY. REPORTS OF FLASH FLOODING SHOULD BE GIVEN TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORECMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY. BACH
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 13, 5:28 AM EDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 530 AM EDT MON APR 13 1987 HEAVY RAIN FELL OVER SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK DURING THE NIGHT. THIS INCLUDED PORTIONS OF THE MOHAWK VALLEY...THE UPPER HUDSON VALLEY... THE CATSKILLS...AND THE SUSQUEHANNA REGION OF NEW YORK. SINCE 7PM LAST NIGHT 1.4 INCHES OF RAIN FELL AT TANNERSVILLE AND 1.20 INCHES AT CLARYVILLE. BINGHAMTON PICKED UP ALMOST 0.80 INCH. ROME AND UTICA EACH RECEIVED AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF 0.60 INCH. STREAMS IN THESE AREAS ARE STARTING TO RISE BUT AT 5AM WERE STILL WELL WITHIN THEIR BANKS. THE IMMEDIATE CONCERN WILL BE FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING IN AREAS WITH POOR DRAINAGE AND FOR SMALL STREAMS WHICH HAVE A HISTORY OF RISING RAPIDLY AFTER A FEW HOURS OF HEAVY RAIN. IF YOU LIVE IN SUCH AN AREA BE ALERT. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE QUICKLY. < THE RAIN WILL TAPER OFF TO SCATTERED SHOWERS DURING THE MORNING BUT YOU CAN EXPECT MODERATE RISES ON THE LARGER STREAMS AND RIVERS LATER TODAY. GERWITZ
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.