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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Albany, NY

August 7, 1990Berkshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 7, 1990, 12:10 AM EDT for Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 7, 1990, 12:10 AM EDT (04:10 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 1990, 8:00 AM EDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Berkshire County, MA

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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 62 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 1990-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 67 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 1990-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -37 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
67 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Aug 6, 8:43 PM EDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP K
0846PM EDT MON AUG 06 1990
KPSO WLSR APTS
02916    FILE 28   PUTNAM COUNTY SO  CARMEL NY0390000    AUG 08 90
TO           NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
                   HEAVY RAINS/THUNDER STORMS/LOCAL FLOODING

DETAILS CONCERNING EVENT: HEAVY RAINS/ LOCALIZED FLOODING/ THUNDER STORMS
NUMEROUS WIRES DOWN/ NUMEROUS BASEMENTS FLOODED
LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD): CENTRAL AND EAST SIDE OF PUTNAM
COUNTY
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: 08-06-90  1600HRS
DATE AND TIME CONDITION ENDED: 08-06-90  ONGOING LIGHT RAIN 2035HRS
EXTENT OF DAMAGE OR AREAS IN DANGER: NO MAJOR DAMAGE REPORTED/TRAVELING ON
ROADWAYS HAZARDOUS DUE TO LOCALIZED FLOODING AND DEBRIS IN ROADWAY
NUMBER KILLED: 0        NUMBER INJURED: 0
REMARKS: AS REPORTED ON YOUR 800 NUMBER EARLIER THIS DATE/LOCAL FIRE DEPTS
ARE OUT IN FORCE ATTEMPTING TO KEEP ROADWAYS O	PEN TO TRAFFIC/STORMS APPEAR
TO BE SUBSIDING IN AREA HOWEVER LOCAL STREAMS STILL VERY HIGH

AUTH PHONE #: 914 225-4300
AUTH SHERIFF ROBERT D THOUBBORON             SPINELLI     2042PM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 7:55 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYBerkshire3 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.