Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Feb 23, 1990, 12:55 PM EST for Essex County, New York. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 23, 1990, 12:55 PM EST (17:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 1990, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 4 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, 5.9 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 231757
FFWALB
NYC019-031-232200-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1255 PM EST FRI FEB 23 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS EXTENDED THE
FLOOD WARNING FOR THE AUSABLE RIVER UNTIL 5PM EST FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES IN NORTHERN NEW YORK...
IN NORTHERN NEW YORK
SOUTHERN CLINTON
NORTHERN ESSEX
AT 1245...ICE FROM UP RIVER WAS MOVING ALONG THE EAST BRANCH FROM
STICKNEY TO THE VILLAGE OF AUSABLE FORKS. THERE WAS AN ICE JAM IN
THE AUSABLE RIVER JUST BELOW THE JUNCTION OF THE EAST AND WEST
BRANCHES. AT THE GAGE THE WATER CAME UP OVER A FOOT IN THE PAST
30 MINUTES. LOCAL OFFICIALS ARE AT THE SCENE AND A NUMBER OF
FAMILIES WERE EVACUATED.
AS THE WATER CONTINUES TO RISE BEHIND THE JAM...THE FLOODING IS
LIKELY TO WORSEN THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. IF YOU/RE IN THIS AREA...
FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS OF YOUR LOCAL OFFICIAL.
THERE/S A GOOD POSSIBILITY THAT THE JAM BELOW THE JUNCTION OF THE
TWO BRANCHES MAY BE STARTING TO BREAK UP WITH THE INCREASED WATER
LEVELS. THIS WOULD SEND A SURGE OF WATER AND ICE DOWN RIVER TO
KEESVILLE AND AUSABLE CHASM. IF YOU/RE ALONG THAT PART OF THE
RIVER...BE PREPARED FOR A SUDDEN INCREASE IN THE WATER LEVEL.
THE WATER AND ICE COULD CAUSE FLOODING TO TAKE PLACE QUICKLY AND IT
COULD DAMAGE BRIDGES AND OTHER PROPERTY ALONGSIDE THE RIVER.
AS OF EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...ROUTE 9N WAS STILL CLOSED FROM ROUTE
86 TO THE CLINTON COUNTY LINE...WITH 2 TO 3 FT OF WATER ON SOME
SECTIONS OF IT.
THE FLOODWATERS SHOULD BEGIN TO RECEDE LATER THIS AFTERNOON.
KILPATRICKWhat 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, 7:45 AM EST, 5 hours 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, 4 hours 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
Special weather statement, Feb 23, 9:55 AM EST, 3 hours before
NYZ008-010>012-018>020-232000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 955 AM EST FRI FEB 23 1990 SOME SNOW IS ON THE WAY FOR EASTERN NEW YORK TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY. OUR MILD WEATHER WILL BE RAPIDLY ENDING AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES. THE LEADING EDGE OF MUCH COLDER AIR WAS SLOWLY PUSHING THROUGH NEW YORK LATE THIS MORNING. TEMPERATURES IN THE 40S AND 50S WILL BE DROPPING INTO THE 30S BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. TONIGHT...MOISTURE WILL PUSH BACK INTO EASTERN NEW YORK AND IT/LL BE COLD ENOUGH FOR SNOW. THE AREAS IN EASTERN NEW YORK WHICH HAVE THE BEST POTENTIAL FOR GETTING 6 INCHES OR MORE AT THIS TIME ARE THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AND THE LAKE GEORGE-SARATOGA REGION. SO...A WINTER STORM WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR THESE AREAS. ELSEWHERE...SNOW IS LIKELY OVER A GOOD PORTION OF EASTERN NEW YORK TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING BUT AMOUNTS ARE LIKELY TO BE LIGHTER. SEVERAL INCHES COULD ACCUMULATE FROM THE CAPITAL DISTRICT ACROSS THE NORTHERN CATSKILLS...THE EASTERN MOHAWK VALLEY AND THE ADIRONDACKS. THE LEADING EDGE OF COLDER AIR THAT IS SWEEPING THROUGH NEW YORK THIS MORNING WILL COME TO A STAND STILL OVER THE MID-ATLANTIC COAST LATER TODAY. A STORM WILL GET GOING ALONG THIS COLD FRONT AND MOVE NORTH UP THE COAST. AT THIS POINT ITS STILL UNCERTAIN AS TO THE EXACT TRACK AND STRENGTH OF THE STORM. SO...STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR WATCHES FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED ABOUT 300 PM. KANE
Local storm report, Feb 23, 9:57 AM EST, 2 hours 58 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP A
0958AM EST FRI FEB 23 1990
ACPS WLSR APTS
00082 FILE 28 FEB 23-90
TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
(SPECIFY TYPE OF WEATHER OR EARTHQUAKE EVENT)
DETAILS CONCERNING EVENT:
LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD):
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED:
DATE AND TIME CONDITION ENDED:
EXTENT OF DAMAGE OR AREAS IN DANGER:
NUMBER KILLED: NUMBER INJURED:
REMARKS:
THIS IS ONLY A TEST
AUTH PHONE #: 716 858-7773
AUTH COMM CARDARELLI RETTIG 0956Local storm report, Feb 23, 10:02 AM EST, 2 hours 53 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP A
1003AM EST FRI FEB 23 1990
ACPS WLSR APTS
00083 FILE 28 ERIE COUNTY CENTRAL POLICE SERV FEB 23-90
TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
(SPECIFY TYPE OF WEATHER OR EARTHQUAKE EVENT)
DETAILS CONCERNING EVENT: TEST
LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD): TEST
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: FEB 23 1990 1000AM TEST
DATE AND TIME CONDITION ENDED: FEB 23 1990 1000AM TEST
EXTENT OF DAMAGE OR AREAS IN DANGER: TEST
NUMBER KILLED: 00 NUMBER INJURED: 00
REMARKS:
THIS IS ONLY A TEST
AUTH PHONE #: 716 858-7773
AUTH COMM CARDARELLI RETTIG 1002The 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, 8:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Essex | 5 hr |
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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.