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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Albany, NY

June 11, 1995Herkimer County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 1995, 7:16 PM EDT for Herkimer County, New York. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 1995, 7:16 PM EDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1995, 10:15 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Herkimer County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 308 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 424 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
424 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
591 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KALB 112316
FFWALB
NYC043-120215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
716 PM EDT SUN JUN 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL NEW YORK
 
   ...SOUTHERN HERKIMER COUNTY
 
DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED LOCALLY 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN
FROM NEAR FRANKFORT TO DOLGEVILLE IN SOUTHERN HERKIMER COUNTY.
SIMILIAR AMOUNTS HAVE FALLEN IN MANY COMMUNITIES ALONG THE MOHAWK
RIVER IN HERKMIER COUNTY...AND 2 FEET OF WATER HAS FLOODED LOWLAND
AREAS IN THE GERMAN FLATS OF THE TOWN OF HERKIMER.
 
ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH SOUTHERN HERKMIMER
COUNTY THROUGH 9PM...AND CAUSE SMALL STREAMS TO FLOOD. LOCALIZED
FLOODING MAY ALSO OCCUR IN THE MOHAWK RIVER NEAR THE MOUTHS OF
SMALL STREAMS.
 
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
SNYDER
 
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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.