Alert archive / Massachusetts / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 1991, 6:14 PM EDT for Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1991, 6:14 PM EDT (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1991, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Berkshire County, MA
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 252 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 956 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 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 162218 FFWALB MAC003-170015- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 614 PM EDT SUN JUN 16 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN WEST MASSACHUSETTS ...SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY ...FOR THE TOWNSHIPS OF SHEFFIELD...NEW MARLBOROUGH AND SANDISFIELD REPEATED HEAVY RAINFALLS OVER THE SAME AREA IN SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY TODAY HAVE BROUGHT ABOUT THIS WARNING. WITH ROADWAYS CONSIDERABLY WEAKENED BY THE FLOODING IN MAY...WASHOUTS ARE POSSIBLE...AND THAT COULD POSE A DEADLY RISK. HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING IN THE SANDISFIELD AREA AT 610 PM AND IT WILL CONTINUE AT LEAST UNTIL 715 PM. MORE THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM THIS EVENING IN SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY. 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.
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
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 5:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
MAZ010-NYZ013-162350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 510 PM EDT SUN JUN 16 1991 A VIGOUS THUNDERSTORM WAS POUNCING NORTHWESTERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY AND NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL COLUMBIA COUNTY. THE PRIME AREA OF RAIN WAS FROM HILLSDALE IN COLUMBIA COUNTY TO THE NORTH ADAMS AREA IN BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS AT FIVE O CLOCK. AN OBSERVER AT PITTSFIELD NOTED TORENTIAL RAIN. THE RAIN IS BECOMING HEAVIER AND THE STORM IS REDEVELOPING SOUTHWESTWARD TO NEAR TAGHKANIC. THE THUNDERSTORM IS HEADING EAST SOUTHEAST AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT GREAT BARRINGTON AROUND HALF PAST FIVE O CLOCK. ALL PARTS OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY SHOULD GET A DOUSING BEFORE 610 PM. IF YOU LIVE IN BERSHIRE COUNTY...GET INDOORS OR INTO A VEHICLE. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS A FLOODED ROADWAY. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE DAMAGE. END
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 63 min |
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.