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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Albany, NY

July 13, 1996Greene County, Ulster County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 1996, 11:28 AM EDT for Greene County, Ulster County, New York. It was in force for 10 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: Jul 13, 1996, 11:28 AM EDT (15:28 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 1996, 9:30 PM EDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Greene County, NY, Ulster County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 74 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 606 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KALB 131529 RRA
FFWALB
NYC039-111-140130-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1128 AM EDT SAT JUL 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EASTERN NEW YORK
 
   ...GREENE COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK
 
   ...ULSTER COUNTY
 
AT 11:25 AM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED RAINFALL ESTIMATES OF 3 TO 4
INCHES ACROSS CENTRAL PORTIONS OF GREENE AND ULSTER COUNTIES. IN
ADDITION...A SKYWARN SPOTTER FROM PLATTE CLOVE IN ULSTER COUNTY REPORTED
3.45 INCHES RAIN FROM THE REMAINS OF BERTHA.
 
DOPPLER RADAR ALSO SHOWED MORE BANDS OF VERY HEAVY...TROPICAL RAINS
MOVING QUICKLY TOWARDS THE NORTHWEST FROM THE ATLANTIC.  THESE BANDS
WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON...BRINGING LOCALIZED RAINFALL TOTALS
IN GREENE AND ULSTER COUNTIES TO BETWEEN 4 AND 6 INCHES.  MOST
VULNERABLE LOCATIONS FOR EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE THE SOUTHEAST FACING
HIGHER TERRAIN OF THE CATSKILLS.
 
TROPICAL SYSTEMS...SUCH AS TROPICAL STORM BERTHA...HAVE THE POTENTIAL
TO DEPOSIT EXTREMELY HEAVY RAINFALL IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR FURTHER
STATEMENTS AND ADDITIONAL WARNINGS.
 
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.
 
CANNON/NWSFO ALBANY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 10:06 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess	6 hr
Jul 13, 11:45 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Rensselaer	10 hr
Jul 13, 12:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Albany, Schoharie	10 hr
Jul 13, 12:28 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess	10 hr
Jul 13, 1:13 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Schenectady	10 hr
Jul 13, 2:01 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Saratoga, Washington	10 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 1996 Every 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.