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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Albany, NY

July 26, 1995Bennington County, Vermont; Rensselaer County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 1995, 2:54 PM EDT for Bennington County, Vermont; Rensselaer County, New York. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 26, 1995, 2:54 PM EDT (18:54 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 1995, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Rensselaer County, NY, Bennington County, VT

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 48 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1161 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 72 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1161 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
878 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
2.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KALB 261855
FFWALB
NYC083-VTC003-262200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
254 PM EDT WED JUL 26 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST NEW YORK
 
   ...RENSSELAER COUNTY
 
 
IN SOUTH VERMONT
 
   ...BENNINGTON COUNTY
 
THUNDERSTORMS...WITH TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS...WILL
CONTINUE MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL RENSSELAER COUNTY AND
BENNINGTON COUNTY THROUGH 600 PM. DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED
THAT AS MUCH AS 2.1 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN BETWEEN 130 AND 230 PM
ACROSS RENSSELAER AND BENNINGTON COUNTIES. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2.2
INCHES IN AN HOUR OR 3.3 INCHES IN 3 HOURS WILL BE ENOUGH TO CAUSE
FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS IN RENSSELAER AND BENNINGTON COUNTIES. SOME
STREAMS WHICH WOULD BE ESPECIALLY VULNERABLE WOULD BE TOMHANNOCK
CREEK...LITTLE HOOSICK RIVER AND SUNKAVISSIA CREEK IN RENSSELAER
COUNTY...AND JEWETT BROOK...WALLOMSAC RIVER AND THE LITTLE HOOSIC RIVER.
 
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.  MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILEfS.  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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 1:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYBennington60 min
Jul 26, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYDutchess, Ulster61 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Vermont, 1995Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 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.