Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 1993, 1:55 PM EDT for Rensselaer County, Washington County, New York. It was in force for 86 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 1993, 1:55 PM EDT (17:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1993, 3:21 PM EDT
- In force
- 86 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Rensselaer County, NY, Washington County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 621 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 759 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 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 161757 FFWALB NYC083-115-162000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 155 PM EDT MON AUG 16 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN EAST NEW YORK ...NORTHERN RENSSELAER COUNTY IN NORTH NEW YORK ...WASHINGTON COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN WAS NEAR NORTH HOOSICK IN NORTHERN RENSSELAER COUNTY AND NORTH INTO WASHINGTON COUNTY AROUND WHITE CREEK AND SALEM. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT STATIONARY. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. PEOPLE IN VALLEYS...ESPECIALLY THOSE N`EAR STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW.
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, Aug 16, 8:00 AM EDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP Q
0800AM MON AUG 16 1993
QCQC WLSR QCQC
01501 FILE 28 NYSPIN SUPPORT SERVICES NY10100Q1 AUG 16-93
TO NWS - ALBANY NY
COPY SEMO ALBANY NY
.A PHLN6 0816 E DH0700/TX 088/TN 066/TA 068/PPP 0.00/XW 03/SF 00.0/SD 00.0
AUTH ZONE SERGEANT WARREN A. DORSCH
NYSPIN STAFF 8-00 AMSpecial weather statement, Aug 16, 1:40 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
NYZ012>020-VTZ004-161830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 140 PM EDT MON AUG 16 1993 VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING IN SOUTHERN WASHINGTON AND NORTHEAST RENSSELAER. AT 130 PM THUNDERSTORMS ACCOMPANIED BY TORRENTIAL RAIN WAS FROM COILA AND CAMBRIDGE IN SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY TO NEAR GRAFTON AND PETERSBURGH IN RENSSELAER COUNTY. FLOODING...DUE TO THE HEAVY RAIN AND POOR DRAINAGE WAS OCCURRING IN BUSKIRK. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT LESS THAN 10 MILES AN HOUR. THEY WILL DRIFT INTO BENNINGTON COUNTY VERMONT AND NORTHERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS BETWEEN 200 PM AND 230 PM. THE DOWNPOUR MAY CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING OF STREETS...AND IN AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE IN CAMBRIDGE...EAGLE BRIDGE...BUSKIRK...AND PETERSBURGH. SMALL STREAMS MAY ALSO BEGIN RISING RAPIDLY. DRIVE VERY CAREFULLY. IF THE WATER STARTS RISING ON THE ROADS ...ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY FOR HIGHER GROUND. AS A PRECAUTION... CAMPERS SHOULD MOVE AWAY FROM STREAMS AS WELL. SL
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 1:42 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
NYZ012>020-VTZ004-161830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 140 PM EDT MON AUG 16 1993 VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING IN SOUTHERN WASHINGTON AND NORTHEAST RENSSELAER. AT 130 PM THUNDERSTORMS ACCOMPANIED BY TORRENTIAL RAIN WAS FROM COILA AND CAMBRIDGE IN SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY TO NEAR GRAFTON AND PETERSBURGH IN RENSSELAER COUNTY. FLOODING...DUE TO THE HEAVY RAIN AND POOR DRAINAGE WAS OCCURRING IN BUSKIRK. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT LESS THAN 10 MILES AN HOUR. THEY WILL DRIFT INTO BENNINGTON COUNTY VERMONT AND NORTHERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS BETWEEN 200 PM AND 230 PM. THE DOWNPOUR MAY CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING OF STREETS...AND IN AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE IN CAMBRIDGE...EAGLE BRIDGE...BUSKIRK...AND PETERSBURGH. SMALL STREAMS MAY ALSO BEGIN RISING RAPIDLY. DRIVE VERY CAREFULLY. IF THE WATER STARTS RISING ON THE ROADS ...ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY FOR HIGHER GROUND. AS A PRECAUTION... CAMPERS SHOULD MOVE AWAY FROM STREAMS AS WELL. SL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer, Washington | 85 min |
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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.