Alert archive / Vermont / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 1996, 5:11 PM EDT for Windham County, Vermont. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 1996, 5:11 PM EDT (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1996, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Windham County, VT
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 504 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 814 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KALB 122114 FFWALB VTC025-130115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 511 PM EDT WED JUN 12 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHERN VERMONT ...NORTHERN WINDHAM COUNTY AT 510 PM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A GROUP OF THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME NORTHERN WINDHAM COUNTY ALONG THE WINDSOR COUNTY BORDER. THESE STORMS HAVE BEEN PERSISTENTLY REFORMING OVER THE SAME AREA OVER THE PAST THREE HOURS. RADAR ESTIMATED THAT CLOSE TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 2 PM. THIS WILL CAUSE RAPID RISES ON THE NORMANSKILL...SAXTONS AND WILLIAMS WATERWAYS. 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 HIGHEdR GROUND. JC/NWSFO ALB
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
Local storm report, Jun 12, 1:45 PM EDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP W
0144PM WED JUN 12 1996
WDTC WLSR GCOL
00011 FILE 28 DC DEPT OF EMERG RESPONSE NYSEM131H JUN 12-96
TO NYS DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION - BUREAU OF OIL SPILLS
COPY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE - STATE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICE
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REGION: DUTCHESS COUNTY SPILL NO.
REPORTING AGENCY: DUTCHESS COUNTY EMERGENCY RESPONSE
PHONE NUMBER: 914-486-2081
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SPILL DATE: 06/12/96 TIME: 09:44 A.M.
PETROLEUM SPILLED MATERIAL CLASS
[X]1-GASOLINE [ ]7-WASTE OIL | [X]1-PETROLEIM []4-RAW SEWAGE
[ ]2-#2 FUEL [ ]8-NON-PCB OIL | [ ]2-NONPETRO/NONHAZ []5-UNKNOWN
[ ]3-#4 FUEL [ ]9-PCB OIL | [ ]3-HAZ MATERIAL
[ ]4-#6 FUEL [ ]10-KEROSENE |
[ ]5-DIESEL [ ]11-UNKNOWN |
[ ]6-JET FUEL |
OTHER MATERIAL SPILLED:
QUANTITY SPILLED: 20 GALLONS
IS THIS A SARA TITLE III/CERCLA NOTIFICATION? [ ]-YES [ ]-NO
IF TANK FAILURE: TANK SIZE GAL. TEST METHOD
LEAK RATE
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SPILL LOCATION SPILLER (IF DIFFERENT)
PLACE: RT 9 1MILE NORTH OF I84 |NAME: CON EDISON
STREET/ROAD: RT 9 |STREET:
MUNICIPALITY: VILLAGE OF FISHKILL |CITY/STATE/ZIP:
COUNTY: DUTCHESS |CONTACT PERSON:
CONTACT PERSON: |PHONE:
PHONE:
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SPILL CAUSE
1. [ ] - HUMAN ERROR 7. [ ] - DELIBERATE
2. [ ] - TRAFFIC ACCIDENT 8. [ ] - ABAND. DRUMS
3. [X] - EQUIP. FAILURE 9. [ ] - TANK FAILURE
4. [ ] - VANDALISM 10. [ ] - TANK OVERFILL
5. [ ] - TK TEST FAIL. (BULK STOR. PRO)11. [ ] - OTHER
6. [ ] - HOUSEKEEPING 12. [ ] - UNKNOWN
SPILL SOURCE
1. [ ] - COMM./INDUST. 7. [X] - COMM. VEHICLE
2. [ ] - NON COMM./INST. 8. [ ] - TANK TRUCK
3. [ ] - MAJ FAC 40,000 GAL 9. [ ] - PVT. DWELLING
4. [ ] - NON-MAJ FAC 1,100 GAL 10. [ ] - VESSEL
5. [ ] - GAS STATION 11. [ ] - RAIL ROAD CAR
6. [ ] - PASS. VEHICLE 12. [ ] - UNKNOWN
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RESOURCE AFFECTED YOUR AGENCY TYPE
1. [X] - ON LAND 3. [ ] - POLICE DEPARTMENT
2. [ ] - IN SEWER 10. [ ] - FEDERAL GOV'T.
3. [ ] - GROUND WATER 11. [ ] - OTHER
4. [ ] - SURFACE WATER
5. [ ] - AIR
WATERBODY AFFECTED:
REMARKS: GASOLINE CONTAINED WILL BE PICKED UP BY SPILLER.
FAX SPILL #-FAX #914-486-3997
AUTH JUDIE TRAVER VATER 01:43 PM
ASSISTANT EMERGENCY RESPONSE COORDINATOR
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Flash Flood Warnings in Vermont, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996
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.