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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Albany, NY

July 13, 1996Columbia County, Dutchess County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 1996, 12:28 PM EDT for Columbia County, Dutchess 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, 12:28 PM EDT (16:28 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 1996, 10:30 PM EDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 77 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 1996-07-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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 1996-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 160 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
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 131627
FFWALB
NYC021-027-140230-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1228 PM EDT SAT JUL 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS EXTENDED
FLOOD WARNINGS THROUGH 1030 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EASTERN NEW YORK
 
   ...COLUMBIA COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK
 
   ...DUTCHESS COUNTY
 
AT 1220 PM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED BANDS OF TROPICAL
RAIN ROTATING INTO COLUMBIA AND DUTCHESS COUNTIES FROM THE
ATLANTIC. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS
ALREADY FALLEN ACROSS A LARGE PORTION OF THESE COUNTIES WITH
LOCALIZED AMOUNTS EXCEEDING 5 INCHES IN THE HILLTOWNS EAST
OF POUGHKEEPSIE.  BECAUSE COPIOUS RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE
THROUGH THE AFTERNOON...FLOOD WARNINGS HAVE BEEN EXTENDED
THROUGH LATE THIS EVENING.
 
MORE BANDS OF HEAVY RAIN WILL ROTATE AROUND THE PERIPHERY OF
TROPICAL STORM BERTHA THIS AFTERNOON....BRINGING LOCALIZED
STORM TOTALS INTO THE 5 TO 7 INCH RANGE.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION!  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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 10:06 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYColumbia, Dutchess6 hr
Jul 13, 11:28 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYGreene, Ulster10 hr
Jul 13, 11:45 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYRensselaer10 hr
Jul 13, 12:12 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYAlbany, Schoharie10 hr
Jul 13, 1:13 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYSchenectady10 hr
Jul 13, 2:01 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYSaratoga, Washington10 hr

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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.