Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Feb 23, 1990, 8:55 AM EST for Essex County, New York. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 23, 1990, 8:55 AM EST (13:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 1990, 2:00 PM EST
- In force
- 5 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 12:00Z, 1.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 800 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 98 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -70 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 231356
FFWALB
NYC031-231900-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
855 AM EST FRI FEB 23 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS EXTENDED THE
FLOOD WARNING UNTIL 200 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE
FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHERN NEW YORK
NORTHERN ESSEX
THE STATE POLICE REPORTED PORTIONS OF ROUTE 9N WERE UNDER THREE FEET
OF WATER. THE STICKNEY BRIDGE WAS CLOSED DUE TO THE FLOODING...AND
AT LEAST TWO OTHER BRIDGES WERE IN JEOPARDY. THIRTY HOMES WERE
BEING EVACUATED.
FLOOD WATERS WERE STILL RISING. TEMPERATURES THOUGH HAVE FALLEN
TO NEAR FREEZING...AND AS THE WEATHER GETS COLDER RUNOFF WILL
DIMINISH AND FLOOD WATERS WILL START TO RECEDE.
YOU SHOULD SHOULD FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS OF EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS. IF EVACUATION IS ADVISED...
LEAVE THE AREA IMMEDIATELY BEFORE YOUR ROUTE TO SAFETY IS CUT OFF BY
FLOOD WATERS. DON/T CROSS ANY BRIDGES WHICH ARE CLOSED OR WATER
COVERED. AS TEMPERATURES FALL BELOW FEEZING WATER ON ROADS WILL
FREEZE MAKING THEM VERY SLICK.
THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
AROUND NOON.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, 4 hours 56 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 0348AMSpecial weather statement, Feb 23, 4:21 AM EST, 4 hours 34 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, 2 hours 37 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
Local storm report, Feb 23, 7:45 AM EST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP F
0746AM EST FRI FEB 23 1990
FLIB WLSR QENC
00229 FILE 28 PD LIBERTY NY0522000 FEB 23-90
TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
NYS DEPT ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION - BIAM - MR. RICHARD (DOC) TAYLOR
STANDARD HYDROLOGIC EXCHANGE FORMAT
DATE OF OBSERVATION: 02/23/90 TIME OF OBSERVATION: 7:00 AM EDT
OBSERVATION ID #: LBTN6/ PERCIP: .39 /
WX: 52 / HIGH TEMP: 48 / LOW TEMP: 27 / CURRENT TEMP: 48 /
NEW SNOW: / TOTAL SNOW ON GROUND: /
RIVER: /
PERCIP YESTERDAY MORNING: /
REMARKS:BETWEEN 7-00AM YESTERDAY MORNING AND 11-00PM LAST NIGHT
.37 INCHES #OF RAIN HAD FALLEN, AND FROM 11-00PM TO 7-00AM THIS
MORNING AN ADDITIONAL .02 INCHES HAD FALLEN BRINGING TOTAL TO .39
AUTH SENDER/TIMESpecial weather statement, Feb 23, 8:50 AM EST, 5 minutes before
NYZ013-MAZ006-231500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 850 AM EST FRI FEB 23 1990 RARE WINTER THUNDERSTORMS WERE RUMBLING THROUGH THE LOWER HUDSON VALLEY OF NEW YORK AND THE BERKSHIRES OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. AT 840 AM THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A LINE FROM NEAR LEE MASSACHUSETTS TO RED HOOK IN NORTHERN DUTCHESS COUNTY IN NEW YORK. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY BY 9:30 AM...INCLUDING GREAT BARRINGTON AND SOUTHFIELD. BRIEF STORMS WILL ALSO MOVE THROUGH MILLERTON AND MILBROOK IN NORTHERN DUTCHESS COUNTY. THERE WILL BE BRIEFLY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS.~..AND MAYBE SMALL HAIL WITH THESE STORMS. IF THE SKY BECOMES THREATENING...YOU SHOULD GO INDOORS. SL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 6:52 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Essex | 2 hr |
| Feb 23, 12:55 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Essex | 4 hr |
Nearby
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.