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Flash Flood Warning 46, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Oct 20, 1996, 4:17 AM EDT for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 5 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, 4:17 AM EDT (08:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 20, 1996, 9:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 137 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.
- 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
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, Oct 19, 10:48 PM EDT, 5 hours 29 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, 5 hours 26 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. < 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 20, 3:01 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Greene, Ulster | 6 hr |
| Oct 20, 4:05 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Montgomery, Schoharie | 12 hr |
| Oct 20, 6:27 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Northwest Hills Planning Region | 7 hr |
Nearby
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.