Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 16, 1990, 12:55 PM EST for Saratoga County, Warren County, New York. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 1990, 12:55 PM EST (17:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 1990, 3:05 PM EST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Saratoga County, NY, Warren 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 1278 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 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 161805 FFWALB NYC091-113-170000- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 1255 PM EST FRI MAR 16 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NEW YORK...SARATOGA WARREN RAPID RISES HAVE OCCURRED DURING THE PAST HOUR ON THE HUDSON RIVER AT HADLEY...NEW YORK. THE HUDSON RIVER HAS RISEN ALMOST THREE FEET SINCE NOON. FLOOD STAGE AT HADLEY IS 14 FEET. AT 1PM THE RIVER WAS 14.0 FEET AND RISING VERY QUICKLY. RAPIDLY RISING WATER IS LIKELY TO AFFECT PERSONS IN HADLEY AND LAKE LAZERNE. THE CAUSE OF THE RAPID RISE IS LIKELY TO BE AN ICE JAM. PERSONS ALONG THE RIVER NEAR HADLEY AND LAKE LUZERNE SHOULD MOVE AWAY FROM THE RIVER. 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 FLOODING SHOULD BE GIVEN TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORECMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY. END SCROM
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, Mar 16, 7:50 AM EST, 5 hours 5 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP F
0751AM EST FRI MAR 16 1990
FLIB WLSR QENC
00318 FILE 28 PD LIBERTY NY0522000 MAR 16-90
TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
NYS DEPT ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION - BIAM - MR. RICHARD (DOC) TAYLOR
STANDARD HYDROLOGIC EXCHANGE FORMAT
DATE OF OBSERVATION: 03/16/90 TIME OF OBSERVATION: 7:00 AM EDT
OBSERVATION ID #: LBTN6/ PERCIP:f .00 /
WX: 01 / HIGH TEMP: 78 / LOW TEMP: 37 / CURRENT TEMP: 50 /
NEW SNOW: / TOTAL SNOW ON GROUND: /
RIVER: /
PERCIP YESTERDAY MORNING: /
REMARKS:
AUTH AND SENT PAUL H LEROY 7-50AMLocal storm report, Mar 16, 7:52 AM EST, 5 hours 3 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP F
0753AM EST FRI MAR 16 1990
FLIB WLSR QENC
00319 FILE 28 PD LIBERTY NY0522000 MAR 16-90
TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
NYS DEPT ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION - BIAM - MR. RICHARD (DOC) TAYLOR
STANDARD HYDROLOGIC EXCHANGE FORMAT
DATE OF OBSERVATION: 03/16/90 TIME OF OBSERVATION: 7:00 AM EDT
OBSERVATION ID #: LBTN6/ PERCIP:k .00 /
WX: 01 / HIGH TEMP: 78 / LOW TEMP: 37 / CURRENT TEMP: 50 /
NEW SNOW: / TOTAL SNOW ON GROUND: /
RIVER: /
PERCIP YESTERDAY MORNING: /
REMARKS:
AUTH AND SENT PAUL H LEROY 7-50AMNearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990
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.