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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Albany, NY

March 13, 1990Essex County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 13, 1990, 4:00 PM EST for Essex County, New York. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 13, 1990, 4:00 PM EST (21:00 UTC)
Expired: Mar 13, 1990, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 3 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, 9.0 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: 577 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 261 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 267 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KALB 132058
FFWALB
NYC019-031-140000-

BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
400 PM EST MON MAR 13 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS EXTENDED THE FLOOD
WARNING FOR THE AUSABLE RIVER UNTIL UNTIL  700 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN NORTHEAST NEW YORK
          ...NORTHERN ESSEX
          ...SOUTHERN CLINTON

AT 400 PM...THE AUSABLE EAST BRANCH WAS A FEW INCHES OVER 12 FT AND
STILL RISING ABOUT 4 INCHES PER HOUR AT AUSABLE FORKS.     THIS
FLOODING WAS A RESULT OF AN ICE JAM...MELTING SNOW...AND LAST NIGHTS
RAIN.

EARLIER TODAY...ROUTES 9N...86...AND ESSEX CO ROUTE 64 WERE CLOSED
BY THE FLOODING.

TODAY...IT WAS 53 DEGREES AT SARANAC LAKE TO THE WEST OF THE
AUSABLE BASIN.   WARM AIR ALOFT WAS MELTING SOME OF THE  WINTER
SNOW COVER.  THE RIVER/S FLOW WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE THE REST
OF THIS AFTERNOON.

SHOULD THE JAM GIVE WAY...IT/LL RELIEVE SOME OF THE FLOODING AT
AUSABLE FORKS...BUT IT COULD CAUSE SUDDEN FLOODING DOWN RIVER
AT CLINTONVILLE...KEESEVILLE...AND AUSABLE CHASM.

OBEY DIRECTIONS OF YOUR LOCAL OFFICALS...AND DON/T DRIVE OVER
FLOODED ROADS OR BRIDGES.  IF YOUR HOME IS THREATENED BY FLOOD
WATERS...LEAVE IT BEFORE YOUR WAY OU8T TO HIGHER GROUND BECOMES
FLOODED.

KILPATRICK

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, Mar 13, 10:52 AM EST, 5 hours 8 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP B
1053AM EST TUE MAR 13 1990
BADM WLSR BSAP BPAP
02068    FILE 28   SP RAY BROOK NY1150102           MAR 13-90
TO           NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
                          FLOOD EVENT
CHECK ONE OR MORE AS APPROPRIATE:
(X) - STREAM/RIVER NEAR BANKFUL
( ) - STREAM/RIVER AT BANKFULL READY TO FLOOD
( ) - FLOODING ACTUALLY OCCURING
( ) - FLOODING IS CONFINED TO FLOOD PLAIN, NO IMMENIENT DAMAGE
( ) - FLOODING IS/ABOUT TO EFFECT REAL PROPERTY
LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD): ST-9N T/AUSABLE FORKS
AT GORMAN'S CRS. AND STICKNEY BRIDGE TOWARDS THE VILLAGE OF AUSABLE FORKS
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: 03/13/90 - 12AM
NAME OF STREAM/RIVER:EAST BRANCH AUSABLE RIVER
EXTENT OF DAMAGE OR AREAS IN DANGER: N/A

REMARKS: RIVER LEVEL HAS RISEN APPROX 3 FT SINCE MIDNIGHT CAUSING
PRESSURE TO BUILD ON ICE JAMS - NO FLOODING AT THIS TIME - WATER REPORTED
TO BE 2 INCHES BELOW ROADWAY
AUTH PHONE #:518-897 -2000

AUTH SGT LEWIS A HARRINGTON         PRIMEAU       10-50AM

Local storm report, Mar 13, 1:51 PM EST, 2 hours 9 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP B
0152PM EST TUE MAR 13 1990
BADM WLSR APTS
02070    FILE 28   SP RAY BROOK NY1150102           MAR 13-90
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: ST-9N AND 86 - CR-64 T/AUSABLE FORKS - ESSEX COUNTY
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: 03/13/90 - 12:00PM
NEAREST TOWN/CITY: VILLAGE AUSABLE FORKS NY
REMARKS: DUE TO WARM WEATHER AND MELTING OF ICE FLOWS - THE EAST BRANCH
OF THE AUSABLE RIVER OVER FLOWED ITS BANKS CAUSING THE CLOSING OF ST RT
9N AND 86 ALSO CR-64 - EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL ON SCENE MONITORING
SITUATION - THE ABOVE THREE ROADWAYS HAVE BEEN CLOSED REF 2069 FILE 28 RE:
ROAD CLOSING
AUTH PHONE #: 518-897-2000

AUTH SGT LEWIS A HARRINGTON
     TROOP "B" EM/NCO               PRIMEAU     1-48PM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 13, 6:50 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Essex	5 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.