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Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Albany, NY

October 20, 1996Greene County, Ulster County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Oct 20, 1996, 3:01 AM EDT for Greene County, Ulster County, New York. It was in force for 6 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
Oct 20, 1996, 3:01 AM EDT (07:01 UTC)
Expired
Oct 20, 1996, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Greene County, NY, Ulster County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 74 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 1996-10-20Temperature 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 1996-10-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 247 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
934 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
247 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
408 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, Oct 19, 10:11 PM EDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP F
1011PM     SAT OCT 19 1996
FMPD WLSR APTS
01353    FILE 28   PD MONROE NY0352600                       OCT 19-96
TO       DESTINATION(S) OCSD

THE FOLLOWING ROADS IN THE VILLAGE OF MONROE ARE CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING

ROUTE 17M NEAR GILBERT ST
RYE HILL ROAD FROM STAGE ROAD TO REYNOLDS ROAD

AUTH CHIEF DOMINIC GIUDICE/PO R L COMPASSO
OPER - GRALTON,JOHN C                 2211
Special weather statement, Oct 19, 10:48 PM EDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before
NYZ057-058-061>063-066-MAZ001-CTZ001-200900-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - WIND ADVISORY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1047 PM EDT SAT OCT 19 1996

STRONG WINDS CONTINUE TO BUFFET SOUTHEAST NEW YORK AND ADJACENT
WESTERN NEW ENGLAND...

A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN NEW YORK...

DELAWARE   SULLIVAN   WESTERN GREENE   WESTERN ULSTER   DUTCHESS
EASTERN COLUMBIA

...AS WELL AS FOR LITCHFIELD COUNTY CONNECTICUT AND FOR BERKSHIRE
COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS.

EAST TO NORTHEAST WINDS WILL AVERAGE 20 TO 35 MPH.  THEY WILL EXCEED
50 MPH OVER PEAKS AND RIDGES AND IN SOME VALLEYS WHERE CHANNELING
OCCURS.  WET GROUND WILL MAKE IT EASIER TO PUSH OVER TREES.

THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF DOWNED TREES AND POWER LINES IN
POUGHKEEPSIE AND FISHKILL IN DUTCHESS COUNTY AND IN LITCHFIELD
COUNTY BETWEEN NEW MILFORD AND BROOKFIELD.  SOME ROADS WERE CLOSED
AS A RESULT.

IF YOU ARE TRAVELING USE CAUTION.  ROADS WILxL BE SLIPPERY DUE TO
RAIN AND FALLEN LEAVES.  STRONG WINDS CAN MAKE IT DIFFICULT TO STEER
YOUR VEHICLE.

GG
Special weather statement, Oct 19, 10:51 PM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
NYZ057-058-061>063-066-MAZ001-CTZ001-200900-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - WIND ADVISORY (CORRECTION FOR COUNTIES)
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1050 PM EDT SAT OCT 19 1996

STRONG WINDS CONTINUE TO BUFFET SOUTHEAST NEW YORK AND ADJACENT
WESTERN NEW ENGLAND...

A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN NEW YORK...

GREENE   ULSTER   DUTCHESS   COLUMBIA

...AS WELL AS FOR LITCHFIELD COUNTY CONNECTICUT AND FOR BERKSHIRE
COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS.

EAST TO NORTHEAST WINDS WILL AVERAGE 20 TO 35 MPH.  THEY WILL EXCEED
50 MPH OVER PEAKS AND RIDGES AND IN SOME VALLEYS WHERE CHANNELING
OCCURS.  WET GROUND WILL MAKE IT EASIER TO PUSH OVER TREES.
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THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF DOWNED TREES AND POWER LINES IN
POUGHKEEPSIE AND FISHKILL IN DUTCHESS COUNTY AND IN LITCHFIELD
COUNTY BETWEEN NEW MILFORD AND BROOKFIELD.  SOME ROADS WERE CLOSED
AS A RESULT.

IF YOU ARE TRAVELING USE CAUTION.  ROADS WILL BE SLIPPERY DUE TO
RAIN AND FALLEN LEAVES.  STRONG WINDS CAN MAKE IT DIFFICULT TO STEER
YOUR VEHICLE.

GG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 20, 4:05 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYMontgomery, Schoharie12 hr
Oct 20, 4:17 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYGreater Bridgeport Planning Region, Northwest Hills Planning Region5 hr
Oct 20, 6:27 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYNorthwest Hills Planning Region7 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 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.