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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Albany, NY

January 26, 1990Montgomery County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jan 26, 1990, 6:54 AM EST for Montgomery County, New York. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 26, 1990, 6:54 AM EST (11:54 UTC)
Expired: Jan 26, 1990, 11:00 AM EST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Montgomery 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 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 55 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 953 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 597 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 738 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 
TTAA00 KALB 261204 COR
FFWALB
NYC057-261600-

FLOOD WARNING .......................CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
654 AM EST FRI JAN 26 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN EAST NEW YORK
          ...MONTGOMERY

THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SHERIFF/S DEPARTMENT REPORTS THAT THE CAROGA
CREEK ON WAGNERS HOLLOW ROAD IN PALATINE HAS AN ICE JAM. THE JAM HAS
TRIPLED IN SIZE SINCE 0345 AM. WATER IS VERY CLOSE TO THE ROAD AND
FLOODING IS ABOUT TO OCCUR. ALSO...AN ICE JAM BROKE ON THE SCHOHARIE
CREEK NEAR BURTONSVILLE BRIDGE. THE SHERIFF REPORTS THAT WATER IS RISING
VERY RAPIDLY.
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.

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

Local storm report, Jan 26, 6:43 AM EST, 11 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP G
0644AM EST FRI JAN 26 1990
GMSO WLSR APTS
00503    FILE 28   MONTGOMERY CO SO FONDA NY028000  JAN 26-90
TO           NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
                      RAPID FLOODING
CHECK ONE:
( ) - DAM BREAK/LEVEE FAILURE HAS OCCURRED
( ) - DAM BREAK/FAILURE IMMENENT
( ) - DAM BREAK/LEVEE FAILURE POSSIBLE
(X) - ICE JAM CAUSING OR ABOUT TO CAUSE FLOODING
( ) - RAPID FLOODING POSSIBLE BECAUSE
(X) - LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAUSING SMALL STREAMS TO FLOOD
( ) - OTHER
NAME OF DAM/LEVEE:
STREAM WHICH WILL BE AFFECTED: CAROGA CREEK
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: 0624AM
NEAREST TOWN/CITY: CAROGA CREEK WAGNERS HOLLOW RD TN/PALATINE
REMARKS: ICE JAM HAS TRIPLED IN SIZE SINCE 0345AM  WATER APPROX 1 1/2
FEET FROM ROAD
AUTH PHONE #: 518 853-4312
AUTH SHERIFF RONALD EMERY           BUCK          0642AM

Local storm report, Jan 26, 6:48 AM EST, 6 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP G
0649AM EST FRI JAN 26 1990
GMSO WLSR APTS
00504    FILE 28   MONTGOMERY CO SO FONDA NY028000  JAN 26-90
TO           NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
                      RAPID FLOODING
CHECK ONE:
( ) - DAM BREAK/LEVEE FAILURE HAS OCCURRED
( ) - DAM BREAK/FAILURE IMMENENT
( ) - DAM BREAK/LEVEE FAILURE POSSIBLE
(X) - ICE JAM CAUSING OR ABOUT TO CAUSE FLOODING
( ) - RAPID FLOODING POSSIBLE BECAUSE
(X) - LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAUSING SMALL STREAMS TO FLOOD
( ) - OTHER
NAME OF DAM/LEVEE:
STREAM WHICH WILL BE AFFECTED: SCHOHARIE CREEK
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: 0618AM
NEAREST TOWN/CITY: LOST VALLEY  BURTONSVILLE AREA
REMARKS: ICE HAS BROKE WATER RISING QUICKLEY STILL WITHIN ITS BANKS
PATROLS ENROUTE TO CHECK WATER LEVEL AT BURTONSVILLE BRIDGE
AUTH PHONE #: 518 853-4312
AUTH SHERIFF RONALD EMERY           BUCK          0647AM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 26, 8:10 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Columbia, Rensselaer	5 hr
Jan 26, 9:40 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Albany, Saratoga, Schenectady	4 hr
Jan 26, 9:40 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Washington	4 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.