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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Albany, NY

February 23, 1990Essex County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Feb 23, 1990, 6:52 AM EST for Essex County, New York. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 23, 1990, 6:52 AM EST (11:52 UTC)
Expired: Feb 23, 1990, 9:00 AM EST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Essex 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 159 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: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 92 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 579 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 732 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 231152
FFWALB
NYC031-231400-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
652 AM EST FRI FEB 23 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTH NEW YORK
       NORTHERN ESSEX
 
 
OVERNIGHT RAINS HAVE CAUSED THE AUSABLE RIVER TO OVERFLOW ITS BANKS.
STATE POLICE REPORT 1 TO 2 FEET OF WATER ON THE ROAD BETWEEN JAY AND
AUSABLE FORKS.
 
 
 
 
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.
 
SNYDER

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, Feb 23, 3:59 AM EST, 2 hours 53 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP G
0400AM EST FRI FEB 23 1990
GMSO WLSR APTS
01066    FILE 28   MONTGOMERY CO SO FONDA NY0280000    FEB 23-90
TO           NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
                      ROAD FLOODING
CHECK ONE OR MORE AS APPROPRIATE:
(X) - ROAD FLOODING
( ) - ROADSIDE CULVERTS FLOODING
( ) - STORM SEWERS BACKING UP CAUSING LOCAL URBAN FLOODING
( ) - WATER COLLECTING IN LOW LYING UNDERPASSES
( ) - OTHER
LOCATION: ROUTE 5  TN PALATINE   MONTGOMERY COUNTY
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: 0327AM
NEAREST TOWN/CITY: APPROX 2 MILES EAST PALATINE BRIDGE
REMARKS: 2-3 IN WATER COVERING 1 1/2 LANES   STATE D.O.T. ADVISED
MILE POST  MARKER 1143
AUTH PHONE #: 518 853-4312
AUTH SHERIFF RONALD# R EMERY         BUCK          0348AM

Special weather statement, Feb 23, 4:21 AM EST, 2 hours 31 minutes before

NYZ006>013-018-020-210000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
400 AM EST FRI FEB 23 1990

...WINTER STORM WATCHES HAVE BEEN POSTED FOR TONIGHT AND SATURDAY
FOR THE LAKE GEORGE SARATOGA REGION...CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AND ALL OF
VERMONT...

  IT MAY SEEM HARD TO BELIEVE WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE 50S IN MUCH OF
THE REGION EARLY THIS MORNING...BUT IT WILL TURN SHARPLY COLDER TODAY
AS THE LEADING EDGE OF COLDER AIR MOVES SOUTH THROUGH NEW YORK AND
VERMONT.

  THIS FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH TO MARYLAND WHERE A WEATHER DISTURBANCE
WILL FORM ON IT THIS EVENING. THIS LOW WILL SLOWLY MOVE NORTHEAST
ALONG THE NEW JERSEY AND NEW ENGLAND COASTS FRIDAY NIGHT AND
SATURDAY. IT WILL SPREAD RAIN AND SNOW ACROSS NEW YORK AND VERMONT
LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

  AT THIS TIME HOW MUCH THE COASTAL LOW WILL STRENTHEN IS UNCERTAIN.
IT WILL DEPEND ON HOW TWO WEATHER DISTURBANCES IN THE UPPER ATMOSHERE
TRACK TONIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING. IF THEY MERGE SOONER THE COASTAL
LOW WILL STRENTHEN RAPIDLY RAISING THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY SNOW IN
MUCH OF IN UPSTATE EASTERN NEW YORK AND VERMONT.

  EVEN IF THEY DONT MERGE THE STORM WITH STRENTHEN ALONG THE NEW
ENGLAND COAST LATE TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. IT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO DUMP
AT LEAST 6 INCHES OR MORE OF SNOW IN ALL OF VERMONT AS WELL AS
ADJACENT AREAS IN NEW YORK'S LAKE GEORGE REGION AND CHAMPLAIN VALLEY.

  SNOW IS ALSO LIKELY IN MUCH OF THE REST OF EASTERN NEW YORKA
EXCEPT THE CATSKILLS AND LOWER HUDSON VALLEY WHERE RAIN TONIGHT
WILL EVENTUALLY CHANGE TO SNOW. FROM THE SUSQUEHANNA REGION TO THE
MOHAWK VALLEY AND ADIRONDACKS  SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW COULD FALL
TONIGHT TRHOUGH SATURDAY.

SNYDER

Special weather statement, Feb 23, 6:18 AM EST, 34 minutes before

NYZ06>013-018>020-VTALL-231500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
400 AM EST FRI FEB 23 1990

...WINTER STORM WATCHES HAVE BEEN POSTED FOR TONIGHT AND SATURDAY
FOR THE LAKE GEORGE SARATOGA REGION...CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AND ALL OF
VERMONT...

  IT MAY SEEM HARD TO BELIEVE WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE 50S IN MUCH OF
THE REGION EARLY THIS MORNING...BUT IT WILL TURN SHARPLY COLDER TODAY
AS THE LEADING EDGE OF COLDER AIR MOVES SOUTH THROUGH NEW YORK AND
VERMONT.

  THIS FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH TO MARYLAND WHERE A WEATHER DISTURBANCE
WILL FORM ON IT THIS EVENING. THIS LOW WILL SLOWLY MOVE NORTHEAST
ALONG THE NEW JERSEY AND NEW ENGLAND COASTS FRIDAY NIGHT AND
SATURDAY. IT WILL SPREAD RAIN AND SNOW ACROSS NEW YORK AND VERMONT
LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
  AT THIS TIME HOW MUCH THE COASTAL LOW WILL STRENTHEN IS UNCERTAIN.
IT WILL DEPEND ON HOW TWO WEATHER DISTURBANCES IN THE UPPER ATMOSHERE
TRACK TONIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING. IF THEY MERGE SOONER THE COASTAL
LOW WILL STRENTHEN RAPIDLY RAISING THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY SNOW IN
MUCH OF IN UPSTATE EASTERN NEW YORK AND VERMONT.

  EVEN IF THEY DONT MERGE THE STORM WITH STRENTHEN ALONG THE NEW
ENGLAND COAST LATE TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. IT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO DUMP
AT LEAST 6 INCHES OR MORE OF SNOW IN ALL OF VERMONT AS WELL AS
ADJACENT AREAS IN NEW YORK'S LAKE GEORGE REGION AND CHAMPLAIN VALLEY.

  SNOW IS ALSO LIKELY IN MUCH OF THE REST OF EASTERN NEW YORK
EXCEPT THE CATSKILLS AND LOWER HUDSON VALLEY WHERE RAIN TONIGHT
WILL EVENTUALLY CHANGE TO SNOW. FROM THE SUSQUEHANNA REGION TO THE
MOHAWK VALLEY AND ADIRONDACKS  SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW COULD FALL
TONIGHT TRHOUGH SATURDAY.

  THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 10 AM.

SNYDER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 23, 8:55 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Essex	5 hr
Feb 23, 12:55 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Essex	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.