Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this flash flood warning at Mar 11, 1992, 10:45 AM EST for Clinton County, Essex County, New York. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 11, 1992, 10:45 AM EST (15:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 1992, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clinton County, NY, Essex County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 194 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 111552 COR FFWALB NYC031-019-112300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING - CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 1045 AM EST WED MAR 11 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR ESSEX COUNTY NEW YORK UNTIL 600 PM EST. THIS WARNING ALSO EXTENDS THE FLOOD WARNING ON THE AUSABLE RIVER UNTIL 600 PM. < ICE JAMS HAVE BACKED UP WATER ALONG PORTIONS OF THE AUSABLE AND BOUQUET RIVERS...IN ESSEX COUNTY OF NEW YORK. THE RESULTING FLOOD WATERS HAVE CLOSED PORTIONS OF RT 9N IN KEENE...UPPER JAY...JAY AND THE VILLAGE OF AUSABLE FORKS. ICE JAMS HAVE ALSO FORMED ALONG THE AUSABLE RIVER NEAR THE STICKNEY BRIDGE AND DOWNSTREAM OF THE VILLAGE OF AUSABLE FORKS. IN KEENE VALLEY ICE HAS JAMMED UP AT THE RT 73 BRIDGE AS WELL AS NEAR THE MARCY AIRFIELD. < < ALONG THE BOUQUET RIVER...ICE JAMS HAVE FORMED BETWEEN ELIZAETHTOWN AND NEW RUSSIA. ALONG THE NORTH FORK OF THE BOUQUET RIVER HIGH WATER WAS CAUSING LOCAL EROSION `PROBLEMS.
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, Mar 11, 7:14 AM EST, 3 hours 31 minutes before
VTZ001-002-003-004-005-NYZ011-111500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - WINTER STORM WARNING...WINTER STORM WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 700 AM EST WED MAR 11 1992 THE WINTER STORM WATCH HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN NEW YORK AND NORTHERN VERMONT...FROM ADDISON AND ORANGE COUNTIES NORTHWARD. FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET HAD REACHED CLINTON COUNTY NEW YORK AT 630 AM AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN VERMONT THIS MORNING. THE TEMPERATURE WILL DROP BELOW 32 DEGREES IN THE BURLINGTON AREA BY 830 AM AND IN THE MONTPELIER REGION BY 930 AM. IT SHOULD FALL BELOW FREEZING IN ESSEX...CALEDONIA AND ORANGE COUNTIES BY 1130 AM. A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOR THE SOUTHERN VERMONT COUNTIES OF RUTLAND...WINDSOR...BENNINGTON AND WINDHAM. THE RAIN THAT WAS FALLING ACROSS THE REGION WILL CHANGE TO FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET FOR A COUPLE HOURS WHEN THE TEMPERATURES DROPS TO THE FREEZING MARK. AFTER A COUPLE HOURS OF FREEZING RAIN IT WILL CHANGE OVER TO SNOW. 2 TO 5 INCHES OF SNOW COULD FALL BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THE SNOW WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT WITH GREATER THAN 6 INCHES ACCUMULATION LIKELY IN MOST AREAS. OVERNIGHT RAINS HAVE PRODUCED RUNOFF THAT WAS CAUSING PROBLEMS ON SOME VERMONT HIGHWAYS THIS MORNING. THE MAIN PROBLEM AREAS WERE AROUND NORTH TUNBRIDGE AND HARTFORD. THERE IS A POTENTAL FOR ICE JAMS STILL ON THE WAITS RIVER AROUND EAST CORINTH AND NEAR ROUTE 110 IN TUNBRIDGE. THE COLDER AIR MOVING INTO NORTHERN NEW YORK AND VERMONT TODAY WILL BRING AN END TO THE MELTING SNOWS AND RUN OFF BUT PERSONS LIVING NEAR STREAMS AND RIVERS THAT ARE FLOOD/ICE JAM PRONE SHOULD CONTINUE TO WATCH THEM CLOSELY UNTIL THINGS FREEZE UP AGAIN. DRIVERS SHOULD BE AWARE THAT THE HIGHWAYS WILL BECOME VERY ICY THIS MORNING WHEN THE COLD AIR MOVES IN. THE NEXT STATEMENT ON THIS LATE WINTER WEATHER WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 1000 AM. WSG
Special weather statement, Mar 11, 7:15 AM EST, 3 hours 30 minutes before
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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 9:37 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Clinton | 3 hr |
| Mar 11, 12:51 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Clinton | 5 hr |
| Mar 11, 5:49 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Clinton | 6 hr |
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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.