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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Albany, NY

October 28, 1995Berkshire County, Massachusetts; Dutchess County, New York; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Oct 28, 1995, 4:56 AM EDT for Berkshire County, Massachusetts; Dutchess County, New York; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 28, 1995, 4:56 AM EDT (08:56 UTC)
Expired
Oct 28, 1995, 12:00 PM EDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Berkshire County, MA, Dutchess County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 85 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 00:00Z on 1995-10-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-10-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 466 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1005 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
466 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
716 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 280857
FFWALB
CTC005-MAC003-NYC027-281600-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
456 AM EDT SAT OCT 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL NOON EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT
 
   ...LITCHFIELD COUNTY
 
 
IN WEST MASSACHUSETTS
 
   ...BERKSHIRE COUNTY
 
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK
 
   ...DUTCHESS COUNTY
 
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN REPEATEDLY MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN
DUTCHESS...WESTERN LITCHFIELD AND SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY DURING THE
LAST HOUR. THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS FALLEN FROM JUST EAST OF HOPEWELL
JUNCTION IN DUTCHESS COUNTY TO CANNAN IN LITCHFIELD COUNTY AND BECKETT
IN BERKSHIRE COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT AS
MUCH AS 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THESE AREAS IN THE LAST 3
HOURS...WITH ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN EXPECTED THROUGH 800 AM.
FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS IN DUTCHESS...LITCHFIELD AND BERKSHIRE
COUNTIES IS LIKELY.
 
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.  MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW  SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT.  TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP 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, Oct 28, 4:20 AM EDT, 36 minutes before
NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066-VTZ013-014-MAZ001-
CTZ001-281000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...WIND ADVISORY EXPIRATION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NEW YORK
420 AM EDT SAT OCT 28 1995

...THE WIND ADVISORY FOR EASTERN NEW YORK HAS EXPIRED...

...THE WIND ADVISORY FOR BENNINGTON AND WINDHAM COUNTIES IN
   VERMONT...BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS AND LITCHFIELD
   COUNTY CONNECTICUT HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

WINDS OVER EASTERN NEW YORK AND ADJACENT WESTERN NEW ENGLAND
DIMINISHED TO LESS THAN 30 MILES AN HOUR OVERNIGHT.

WINDS AT MOST PLACES TODAY WILL BE IN THE 15 TO 25 MILE AN HOUR
RANGE...WITH HIGHER GUSTS POSSIBLE IN OR NEAR THUNDERSTORMS.
/
Special weather statement, Oct 28, 4:24 AM EDT, 32 minutes before
NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066-VTZ013-014-MAZ001-
CTZ001-281000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...WIND ADVISORY EXPIRATION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NEW YORK
420 AM EDT SAT OCT 28 1995

...THE WIND ADVISORY FOR EASTERN NEW YORK HAS EXPIRED...

...THE WIND ADVISORY FOR BENNINGTON AND WINDHAM COUNTIES IN
   VERMONT...BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS AND LITCHFIELD
   COUNTY CONNECTICUT HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

WINDS OVER EASTERN NEW YORK 2AND ADJACENT WESTERN NEW ENGLAND
DIMINISHED TO LESS THAN 30 MILES AN HOUR OVERNIGHT.

WINDS AT MOST PLACES TODAY WILL BE IN THE 15 TO 25 MILE AN HOUR
RANGE...WITH HIGHER GUSTS POSSIBLE IN OR NEAR THUNDERSTORMS.

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Massachusetts, 1995Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 1995Flash Flood Warnings in Connecticut, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.