Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 11, 1992, 5:40 PM EST for Essex County, New York. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 11, 1992, 5:40 PM EST (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 1992, 12:00 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Essex County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 644 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 310 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 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 112240 FFWALB NYC031-120500- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 540 PM EST WED MAR 11 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS EXTENDED THE FLOOD WARNING FOR ESSEX COUNTY NEW YORK UNTIL 12 MIDNIGHT. THIS INCLUDES THE AUSABLE EAST AND WEST BRANCHES AND THE BOQUET RIVER. < SEVERAL ICE JAMS HAVE FORCED THE AU SABLE EAST BRANCH OUT OF ITS BANKS AND CLOSED SECTIONS OF ROUTE 9N IN KEENE...UPPER JAY...JAY... AND AU SABLE FORKS. FLOODING HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED FROM ELIZABETH TOWN ALONG THE BOQUET RIVER. THE RAIN AND MELTING HAS ENDED SOME TIME AGO...SO RIVER FLOWS WILL DIMINISH THE REST OF THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. THEREFORE THE FLOODING ALONG THE AU SABLjE AND BOQUET RIVERS SHOULD END BY MIDNIGHT. ANOTHER STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED BY AROUND 900 PM. . RK
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 11, 11:42 AM EST, 5 hours 58 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP C
1141AM EDT WED MAR 11 1992
CONE WLSR APTS
01381 FILE 28 SP ONEONTA NY1380100 MAR 11-92
TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FLOOD EVENT
CHECK ONE OR MORE AS APPROPRIATE:
( ) - STREAM/RIVER NEAR BANKFUL
( ) - STREAM/RIVER AT BANKFULL READY TO FLOOD
(X) - 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):
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: MARCH 11 1992 - 11:00 AM
NAME OF STREAM/RIVER:WEST BRANCH OF DELAWARE RIVER
EXTENT OF DAMAGE OR AREAS IN DANGER: WEST BRANCH OF DELAWARE RIVER
FLOODING - STAMFORD AND AREAS SOUTH - DELAWARE COUNTY
AUTH PHONE #: 607 432-3211
AUTH TPR KENNETH W GRANT WILSEY 11-40 AMSpecial weather statement, Mar 11, 12:30 PM EST, 5 hours 10 minutes before
NYZ007>013-018>020-MAZ010-112030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 1230 PM EST WED MAR 11 1992 ...A WINTER STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE ST LAWRENCE VALLEY...THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY...ADIRONDACKS...THE WESTERN MOHAWK VALLEY...AND THE CATSKILLS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ...THE WINTER STORM WATCH FOR THE LAKE GEORGE SARATOGA REGION HAS BEEN CHANGED TO A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ...THE WINTER STORM WARNING FOR THE EASTERN MOHAWK VALLEY HAS BEEN CHANGED TO A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT IN THE LOWER HUDSON VALLEY...THE GREATER CAPITAL DISTRICT AND THE BERKSHIRES... AT NOON FREEZING RAIN AND SNOW WAS FALLING THROUGH THE WESTERN MOHAWK VALLEY...THE WESTERN ADIRONDACKS AND THE ST. LAWRENCE VALLEY. DURING THE AFTERNOON...PRECIPITATION WILL CHANGE TO ALL SNOW AND WILL COME DOWN HARD AT TIMES. SNOW WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT WITH GREATER THAN 6 INCHES FALLING. SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATIONS THIS AFTERNOON MAY RESULT IN DOWNED LIMBS AND POWER LINES. IN THE CATSKILLS SNOW WAS FALLING AT MONTICELLO WITH FREEZING RAIN FURTHER NORTH. UP TO 6 INCHES OF SNOW AND ICE IS POSSIBLE. IN THE GREATER CAPITAL DISTRICT...THE LOWER HUDSON VALLEY AND BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS...SNOWFALL WON/T BE AS HEAVY WITH TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES. SOME FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET IS ALSO LIKELY. AS TEMPERATURES FALL BELOW FREEZING THIS AFTERNOON... LEFTOVER WATER WILL FREEZE...WITH SNOW ACCUMULATING ON TOP OF THAT. IN THE LAKE GEORGE/SAROTOGA REGION...TEMPERATURES WILL DROP BELOW FREEZING BY ABOUT 200 OR 300 PM...WITH RAIN CHANGING TO FREEZING RAIN AND THEN SNOW. SNOWFALL WILL REACH 3 TO 5 INCHES. A NORTHWEST WIND WILL INCREASE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...REACHING 20 TO 40 MPH. THIS WILL CAUSE A LOT OF BLOWING AND DRIFTING. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL TODAY OR TONIGHT.V..KEEP UP WITH THE LATEST FORECASTS AND BE PREPARED FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEARHER AND ROAD CONDITIONS. FLOOD WATCHES AND WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF EASTERN NEW YORK. ANOTHER STATEMENT WILLBE ISSUED BY 330 PM.
Special weather statement, Mar 11, 2:47 PM EST, 2 hours 53 minutes before
NYZ007>013-018>020-MAZ010-112300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - WINTER STORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 245 PM EST WED MAR 11 1992 ...A WINTER STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE ST LAWRENCE VALLEY...THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AND THE ADIRONDACKS TONIGHT...AND IT HAS BEEN EXTENDED INTO THURSDAY... ...A WINTER STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT IN THE WESTERN MOHAWK VALLEY... ...THE WINTER STORM WARNING FOR THE CATSKILLS HAS BEEN CHANGED TO A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR TONIGHT... ...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT IN THE GREATER CAPITAL DISTRICT...THE EASTERN MOHAWK VALLEY...THE LAKE GEORGE/SARATOGA REGION AND BERKSHIRE COUNTY. THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR THE LOWER HUDSON VALLEY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. < < AT 200 PM IT WAS SNOWING FROM THE WESTERN MOHAWK VALLEY...TO THE WESTERN ADIRONDACKS AND THE ST. LAWRENCE VALLEY...WITH SOME AREAS OF FREEZING RAIN PERSISTING. FROM SARANAC LAKE TO THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY TEMPERATURES WERE NEAR FREEZING WITH RAIN....SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN. PRECIPITATION WILL CHANGE TO ALL SNOW LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE TONIGHT WITH 5 TO 9 INCHES FALLING IN THE WINTER STORM WARNING AREA. ICE ACCUMULATIONS THIS AFTERNOON...MAY RESULT IN DOWNED POWER LINES. < SNOWFALL WILL BE LESS IN THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY AREA...WITH 2 TO 3 INCHES FROM THE CAPITAL DISTRICT TO THE BERKSHIRES...AND 3 TO 5 INCHES FURTHER NORTH AND WEST. TEMPERATURES WERE FALLING THROUGH THE 20S WITH PRECIPITATION CHANGING TO SNOW FROM ALBANY WEST AND SOUTH. SNOW...LEFTOVER WATER ON THE ROADS AND FALLING TEMPERATURES WILL RESULT IN ROADS BECOMING EXTREMELY SLICK. A NORTHWEST WIND WILL INCREASE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...REACHING 20 TO 40 MPH. THIS WILL CAUSE A LOT OF BLOWING AND DRIFTING. < IF YOU MUST TRAVEL TODAY OR TONIGHT...KEEP UP WITH THE LATEST FORECASTS AND BE PREPARED FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEARHER AND ROAD CONDITIONS. FLOOD WATCHES AND WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT IN PARTS OF EASTERN NEW YORK. ANOTHER STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED BY 600 PM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 8:04 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Greene, Ulster | 4 hr |
| Mar 11, 12:40 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Hamilton | 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.