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Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Albany, NY

July 13, 1996Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 1996, 9:00 PM EDT for Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont. 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 Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 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 00:00Z on 1996-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1996-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -155 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
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

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

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

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.