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Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Albany, NY

July 13, 1996Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 1996, 5:57 PM EDT for Bennington County, Windham 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, 5:57 PM EDT (21:57 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1996, 4:00 AM EDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 84 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

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Jul 13, 2:22 PM EDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP K
0222PM     SAT JUL 13 1996
KCSO WLSR QTRF QHQT APTS WAPT
04651    FILE 28   COLUMBIA COUNTY SHERIFF NY0100000         JUL 13-96
TO       NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
         ATTENTION SEMO DUTY OFFICER

                               ROAD FLOODING

COUNTY(S) AFFECTED: COLUMBIA COUNTY

CHECK ONE OR MORE AS APPROPRIATE:
(X) - ROAD FLOODING
( ) - ROADSIDE CULVERTS FLOODING
( ) - STORM SEWERS BACKING UP CAUSING LOCAL URBAN FLOODING
( ) - WATER COLLECTING IN LOW LYING UNDERPASSES
( ) - OTHER
LOCATION: ROUTE 22
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: 7/13/96 14:19
NEAREST TOWN/CITY: HILLSDALE
REMARKS: THE CRANSE CREEK IS NOW FLOODED AND COVERING SR 22 JUST NORTH OF
DOUGWAY RD.  THE JANSEN KILL CREEK HAS ALSO FLOODED COVERING SR 22 SOUTH OF
MITCHELL ST.

AUTH PHONE #: 518 828-3344

AUTH DEPUTY MICHAEL GROSSI                          BRAY 14:21

OPER - BRAY,LOUIS C                   1421

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 2:01 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYBennington10 hr

Nearby

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.