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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Albany, NY

July 13, 1996Saratoga County, Washington County, New York; Bennington County, Vermont

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 1996, 2:01 PM EDT for Saratoga County, Washington County, New York; Bennington County, Vermont. 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, 2:01 PM EDT (18:01 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 1996, 12:00 AM EDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Saratoga County, NY, Washington County, NY, Bennington County, VT

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 59 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 131801
FFWALB
NYC091-115-VTC003-140400-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
201 PM EDT SAT JUL 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EASTERN NEW YORK
 
   ...SOUTHERN SARATOGA COUNTY
 
IN NORTHERN NEW YORK
 
   ...SOUTHERNMOST WASHINGTON COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHERN VERMONT
 
   ...SOUTHERN BENNINGTON COUNTY
 
AT 200 PM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED 2 TO 3 INCHES OF
RAIN HAD FALLEN IN SOUTHERN SARATOGA AND SOUTHERN WASHINGTON
COUNTIES IN NEW YORK AND BENNINGTON COUNTY IN VERMONT.
ADDITIONAL BANDS OF TROPICAL MOISTURE ARE ROTATING NORTHWESTWARD
FROM SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND.
 
AS TROPICAL STORM BERTHA MOVES FROM ASBURY PARK NEW JERSEY
AT 200 PM...TO BLOCK ISLAND RHODE ISLAND BY 8 PM...AN
ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN WILL FALL.  THIS WOULD BRING
STORM TOTALS INTO THE 3 TO 5 INCH RANGE.  SINCE 4 INCHES
OF RAIN IN 12 HOURS WOULD CREATE FLOODING CONDITIONS...EXPECT
LOCALIZED FLOODING TO OCCUR AFTER 3 PM.
 
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, 11:28 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Greene, Ulster	10 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, 5:57 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Bennington, Windham	10 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 1996 Flash Flood Warnings in Vermont, 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.