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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Albany, NY

January 26, 1990Columbia County, Rensselaer County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jan 26, 1990, 8:10 AM EST for Columbia County, Rensselaer County, New York. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 26, 1990, 8:10 AM EST (13:10 UTC)
Expired: Jan 26, 1990, 1:15 PM EST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Columbia County, NY, Rensselaer 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 32 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: 662 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 129 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -259 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 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 261313
FFWALB
NYC021-083-261815-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE AND FREQUENT BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
810 AM EST FRI JAN 26 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 PM EST FOR PEOPLE
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN EAST NEW YORK
          ...COLUMBIA...RENSSELAER
 
RIVERS AND STREAMS IN COLUMBIA AND RENSSELEAR ARE AT BANKFULL AND SOME
 
HAVE STARTED TO FLOOD. THE HOOSICK REIVER HAD A LARGE ICE JAM BEWTEEN
JOHNSONVILLE AND BUSKIRK. THIS JAM IS CAUSING FLOODING OF RIVER ROAD
AND COUNTY ROAD 103. THIS JAM COULD CAUSE FLOODING ALONG THE HOOSIC
FROM BUSKIRK DOWNSTREAM TO THE HUDSON DEPENING OF WHETHER OR NOT
IT MOVES.
 
 THE CLAVERAK CREEK WAS FLOODING NEAR SPLIT ROCK ROAD ACORDING TO
STATE POLICE. THLPLITIPT
 
 AGAWAMUCK CREEK IN COLUMBIA COUNTY WAS AT BACKFULL AND WILL FLOOD
THE AJACENT ROADS.
 
 HEAVEY RAIN AND OVERNIGHT SNOW MELT HAVE CAUSED RUNOFF AND RAISED
RIVWER LEVELS IN THESE COUNTIES. RAIN WILL CONTINUE...HEAVY AT TIMES
THROUGH THE MORNING...CAUSING OTHER SMALL STREAMS TO FLOOD. THE
RAIN WILL CHANGE TO SNOW BY MIDDAY AND THE THREAT OF FLOODING
WILL SUBSIDE DURING THE AFTERNOON AS TEMPERATURES RALL THROUGH
THE 30S...AND RUNOFF DIMINISHES.
 
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 RIS<ING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 26, 6:54 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Montgomery	4 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.