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Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Albany, NY

November 9, 1996Montgomery County, Schoharie County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Nov 9, 1996, 1:02 AM EST for Montgomery County, Schoharie County, New York. It was in force for 8 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: Nov 9, 1996, 1:02 AM EST (06:02 UTC)
Expired: Nov 9, 1996, 9:00 AM EST
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Montgomery County, NY, Schoharie County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 50 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: 590 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 621 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 090602 RRA
FFWALB
NYC057-095-091400-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
102 AM EST SAT NOV 9 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST NEW YORK
 
   ...MONTGOMERY COUNTY...SCHOHARIE COUNTY
 
UP TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN MONTGOMERY AND SCHOHARIE
COUNTIES. FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED ALONG THE COBLESKILL CREEK.
 
FLOODING WAS ALSO OCCURRING ALONG ROUTE 5S IN FONDA AND FORT
PLAIN.  THREE FEET OF WATER WAS OBSERVED ON THAT ROAD IN FULTONVILLE.
SOME BASEMENT FLOODING WAS OCCURRING IN FORT PLAIN.
 
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.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR lIN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A
SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.

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, Nov 8, 8:33 PM EST, 4 hours 29 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP E
0834PM     FRI NOV 08 1996
EHQT WLSR TRPE QHQT
08870    FILE 28   SP CANANDAIGUA NY1340100                  NOV 08-96
TO       SP ALBANY - ALL TROOP "E" AGENCIES

ROAD CLOSURE - RTE 17 STEUBEN COUNTY

ALTERNATE ROUTES:

FROM I-390 SOUTHBOUND - EXIT I-390 AT EXIT 4 (DANSVILLE) TO RTE 36 SOUTH
                        TO TOWN JASPER - TAKE 417 EAST THRU T/ADDISON TO
                        RTE 15 NORTH TO PAINTED POST TO RTE 17 EAST

FROM RTE 17 EASTBOUND - EXIT RTE 17 AT EXIT 34 SOUTH IN HORNELL TO RTE 36
                        THEN FOLLOW ABOVE INSTRUCTIONS

FROM RTE 17 WESTBOUND - EXIT RTE 17 AT EXIT 44 AT PAINTED POST TO RTE 15
                        SOUTH TO ADDISON TO RTE 36 NORTH TO I-390 IN DANSVILLE

DETOUR IS APPROXIMATELY 40 MILES LONG AND IS MANNED BY STATE TROOPERS WHO ARE
DISTRIBUTING MAPS OF DETOUR ROUTES

NO UNNECESSARY TRAVEL

AUTH MAJOR DAVID L CHRISTLER                       ELDRIDGE 8-33 PM
     TROOP "E" COMMANDER

OPER - ELDRIDGE,ALAN W                2033

Special weather statement, Nov 8, 9:33 PM EST, 3 hours 29 minutes before

039>043-047>054-058>061-063>066-VTZ013>014-MAZ001-CTZ001-090100-

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
930 PM EST FRI NOV 9 1996

..THE HIGH WIND WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN NEW YORK
AND WESTERN NEW ENGLAND...

THE STRONG SOUTH WIND THAT BLEW ACROSS EASTERN NEW YORK AND WESTERN
NEW ENGLAND FOR MUCH OF THE DAY...DIED DOWN FRIDAY EVENING.  THE
STRONGEST WIND GUSTS WERE REPORTED IN WESTERN ULSTER COUNTY NEAR
ELLENVILLE LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON.  A GUST OF 57 MILES AN HOUR WAS
RECORDED THERE...AND TREES AND WIRES WERE DOWN IN THE AREA.  AT MID
AFTERNOON...A GUST OF 50 TO 55 MILES AN HOUR WAS NOTED BY AN OBSERVER
AT PERTH IN FULTON COUNTY.

THE LEADING EDGE OF COOLER AIR MOVED ACROSS THE CAPITAL DISTRICT
FRIDAY EVENING COOLING THE AIR ABOUT 20 DEGREES AND EFFECTIVELY
SHUTTING OFF THE SOUTH WIND.  THIS BOUNDARY WAS ALONG THE WESTERN NEW
ENGLAND BORDER AND WILL REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY AS A STORM TAKING
SHAPE IN THE MID ATLANTIC REGION ROARS NORTHWARD OVERNIGHT AND
THROUGH EASTERN NEW YORK AND WESTERN NEW ENGLAND ON SATURDAY.

HEMMERICH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 9, 5:25 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Ulster	5 hr

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.