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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Albany, NY

August 25, 1992Schoharie County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 25, 1992, 5:30 PM EDT for Schoharie County, New York. It was in force for 70 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 25, 1992, 5:30 PM EDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired
Aug 25, 1992, 6:40 PM EDT
In force
70 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Schoharie County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 51 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 1992-08-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 82 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1992-08-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
82 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
660 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KALB 252131
FFWALB
NYC095-260030-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
530 PM EDT TUE AUG 25 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST NEW YORK
 
   ...SCHOHARIE COUNTY
 
AT 525 PM THERE WAS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST ENTERING SCHOHARIE
COUNTY ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE VILLAGE OF COBLESKILL.
 
THIS THUNDERSTORM...AND OTHERS IN SCHOHARIE COUNTY ARE LIKELY
TO CAUSE SOME FLOODING AS THEY CROSS SCHOHARIE COUNTY.
 
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 630 PM THIS EVENING.
 
THE FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 830 PM THIS EVENING.
 
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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, Aug 25, 4:49 PM EDT, 41 minutes before
NYZ006>013-018>020-VTZALL-MAZ010-252200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
448 PM EDT TUE AUG 25 1992
.
A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE CATSKILLS FOR THE REST OF THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

HEAVY RAIN COULD CAUSE RAPID RISES OF CREEKS AND STREAMS IN THE
CATSKILLS...AND FLOODING IS POSSIBLE THERE.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 6:00 PM ACROSS EASTERN
NEW YORK AND NEW ENGLAND.

ONE STORM...BETWEEN WATERFORD AND CLIFTON PARK IN SARATOGA COUNTY...
WILL MOVE ACROSS THE HUDSON RIVER TO TROY BY 5:30 PM THIS EVENING.

OTHER STORMS...FROM PRATTSVILLE TO TANNERSVILLE WILL MOVE TO CAIRO
AND HAINES FALLS BY 5:30 PM.

STORMS ALONG THE BORDER OF ULSTER AND ORANGE COUNTY WILL CONTINUE...
WHILE MOVING TOWARD MIDDLETOWN...NEWBURGH...AND BEACON BY 5:30 PM.

STORMS CONTINUED FROM THE SOUTHERN ADIRONDACKS...NEAR HOPE...TO
SACANDAGA RESEVOIR...AND WARRNESBURG. AND A STORM...NEAR THE
SARATOGA NATIONAL \HISTORIC PARK...WILL MOVE TOWARD BATTENVILLE
BY 5:30.

MANY OF THESE STORMS HAVE HEAVY RAIN...AND THEY MAY CAUSE FLOODING
OF POORLY DRAINED AREAS...SUCH AS CULVERTS...UNDERPASSES...AND
ROADWAYS.

LJM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 3:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYUlster53 min
Aug 25, 5:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYSchoharie60 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 1992Every flash flood warning in 1992

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.