Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Albany, NY

Issued

Aug 4, 1995, 2:36 AM EDT (06:36 UTC)

Expired

Aug 4, 1995, 3:20 AM EDT

In force

44 min

Issued by

NWS Albany, NY

Area

Whole counties

Counties Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY

The Albany radar (KENX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
TTAA00 KALB 040636
FFWALB
NYC083-091-040745-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
236 AM EDT FRI AUG 4 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST NEW YORK
 
   ...NORTHERN RENSSELAER COUNTY...SOUTHERN SARATOGA COUNTY
 
 
AT 2:30 AM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 2 MILES WEST OF
CLIFTON PARK...NEAR JONESVILLE IN SOUTHERN SARATOGA COUNTY.
 
AT  2:45 AM THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT  6 MILES EAST OF
CLIFTON PARK...NEAR MELROSE IN NORTHERN RENSSELAER COUNTY.
 
AT  3:00 AM THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT  9 MILES NORTHWEST OF
PETERSBURG...NEAR PITTSTOWN IN NORTHERN RENSSELAER COUNTY.
 
AT  3:15 AM THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT  5 MILES NORTH OF
PETERSBURG...NEAR NORTH PETERSBUR IN NORTHEASTERN RENSSELAER COUNTY.
 
IF YOU LIVE IN THIS AREA - BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IN
A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM - AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAUSE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60
MILES AN HOUR...LARGE HAIL...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
 
TORRENTIAL RAIN AND FLOODING MAY ALSO OCCUR WITH THIS STORM.
POORLY DRAINED LOW AREAS...SUCH AS UNDERPASSES...MAY FLOOD.
DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 
 42.88 73.82  42.86 73.65  42.84 73.48  42.82 73.32  42.79 73.15
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 

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

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.