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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Albany, NY

November 9, 1996Ulster County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Nov 9, 1996, 5:25 AM EST for Ulster County, New York. 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: Nov 9, 1996, 5:25 AM EST (10:25 UTC)
Expired: Nov 9, 1996, 10:00 AM EST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Ulster County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 96 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 091024
FFWALB
NYC111-091500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
525 AM EST SAT NOV 9 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN EAST NEW YORK

   ...ULSTER COUNTY

RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES OVERNIGHT HAS FALLEN ACROSS
PORTIONS OF WESTERN ULSTER COUNTY. THIS HAS CAUSED THE DRY BROOK IN
THE TOWN OF HARDENBURGH TO OVERFLOW ITS BANKS.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN ULSTER COUNTY REPORTS FLOODING ALONG ROUTE 49
WITH SOME ROADWAYS CLOSED AND SOME ROADS WASHED OUT.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS.  IF 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 IN 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.

MAC

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 9, 4:26 AM EST, 59 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP C
0427AM     SAT NOV 09 1996
CDSO WLSR
02416    FILE 28   DELAWARE CO SO DELHI NY0120000            NOV 09-96
TO       NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

DELAWARE COUNTY  TOWN OF MIDDLETOWN  VILLAGE  OF ARKVILLE

ARKVILLE TRAILER PARK  AND ALL LOW LYING AREAS FROM ARKVILLE
TO FLEISHMANNS HAVE BEEN EVACUATED AS RIVERS CONTINUE TO RISE

WEST BRANCH DELAWARE RIVER VILLAGE DELHI HAS GONE OVER BANKS
HAS RISEN 8 INCHES IN 1 HOUR

REPORTS CONTINUE TO COME IN COUNTYWIDE

AUTH SHERIFF PAUL H PETERSON                     ANDRENO 424AM
OPER - FINKLE,DWAYNE A                0426

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 9, 1:02 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Montgomery, Schoharie	8 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.