Alert archive / Massachusetts / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Albany, NY
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.
- 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
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.