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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Albany, NY

July 13, 19965 counties in New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 1996, 9:00 PM EDT for 5 counties in New York. It was in force for 7 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, 9:00 PM EDT (01:00 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 1996, 4:00 AM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Albany County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Washington County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 25 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 716 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -155 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -111 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 140054
FFWALB
CTC005-MAC003-NYC001-021-039-083-091-093-095-115-027-111-VTC003-
025-140800-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
900 PM EDT SAT JUL 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS
EXTENDED THE FLOOD WARNINGS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT
 
   ...LITCHFIELD COUNTY
 
 
IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
 
   ...BERKSHIRE COUNTY
 
 
IN EASTERN NEW YORK
 
   ...ALBANY COUNTY...COLUMBIA COUNTY...GREENE COUNTY
   ...RENSSELAER COUNTY...SOUTHERN SARATOGA COUNTY...SCHENECTADY COUNTY
   ...SCHOHARIE COUNTY
 
IN NORTHERN NEW YORK
 
   ...SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK
 
   ...DUTCHESS COUNTY...ULSTER COUNTY
 
 
IN SOUTHERN VERMONT
 
   ...BENNINGTON COUNTY...WINDHAM COUNTY
 
AT 900 PM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED MOISTURE FROM TROPICAL
STORM BERTHA EXITING EASTERN VERMONT.  ALTHOUGH THE PRECIPITATION
WAS FINALLY WINDING DOWN...LOCALIZED FLOODING CONTINUED THROUGHOUT
PORTIONS OF THESE COUNTIES.
 
STANDING WATER WILL REMAIN A PROBLEM IN LOW LYING AREAS.  MANY
SMALL RIVERS AND STREAMS WILL BE NEAR OR ABOVE BANKFUL TONIGHT.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.v
 
CANNON/NWSFO ALBANY

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

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 6:23 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066-MAZ001-VTZ013-014-
CTZ001-140000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
620 PM PM SAT JUL 13 1996

OBSERVED RAINFALL TOTALS THROUGH 600 PM....

CITY/TOWN      COUNTY          STATE       RAINFALL (INCHES)
---------      -------         -----       -----------------
KINGSTON       ULSTER          NY          6.40
PLATTE COVE    GREENE          NY          6.00
KNOX           ALBANY          NY          5.10
TANNSERVILLE   GREENE          NY          4.70
STUYVESANT     COLUMBIA        NY          4.23
W. WARDSBORO   WINDHAM         VT          4.16
BETHLEHEM      ALBANY          NY          4.15
NISKAYUNA      SCHENECTADY     NY          3.75
ALBANY AIRPORT ALBANY          NY          3.40

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 9:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess	7 hr
Jul 13, 9:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Greene, Schoharie, Ulster	7 hr
Jul 14, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Herkimer	59 min
Jul 14, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Ulster	67 min
Jul 14, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton	69 min

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.