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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Albany, NY

March 13, 1990Essex County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 13, 1990, 6:50 PM EST for Essex County, New York. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 13, 1990, 6:50 PM EST (23:50 UTC)
Expired
Mar 14, 1990, 12:00 AM 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, 11.8 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1990-03-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1990-03-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 261 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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 132350 RRA
FFWALB
NYC019-031-140500-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS EXTENDED THE FLOOD
WARNING FOR THE AUSABLE RIVER UNTIL UNTIL 1200 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

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

AT 645 PM...THE AUSABLE EAST BRANCH WAS STILL RISING...AT 12.41 FEET.
THAT/S ABOUT 4 INCHES HIGHER THAN IT WAS AT 4 O/CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON.
THE FLOODING WAS A RESULT OF AN ICE JAM...MELTING SNOW...AND LAST
NIGHTS RAIN.
.
THE RIVER/S FLOW WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE SLOWLY DURING THE
EVENING.

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 OUT TO HIGHER GROUND BECOMES
FLOODED.

LJM

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, 1:51 PM EST, 4 hours 59 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 13, 4:00 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningALYEssex3 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.