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Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS Albany, NY

November 9, 1996Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Nov 9, 1996, 8:37 AM EST for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 3 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, 8:37 AM EST (13:37 UTC)
Expired: Nov 9, 1996, 11:45 AM EST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 106 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: 965 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 224 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 283 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 091339
FFWALB
CTC005-091645-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
837 AM EST SAT NOV 9 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT
 
   ...LITCHFIELD COUNTY
 
HEAVY RAINS OVERNIGHT HAVE SWOLLEN SMALL STREAMS TO BANKFULL IN
LITCHFIELD COUNTY. THIS MORNING THE ASPETUCK BEGAN FLOODING. ALTHOUGH
RAIN WILL END THIS MORNING...OTHER SMALL STREAMS IN LITCHFIELD COUNTY
ARE LIKELY TO FLOOD THIS MORING AS RUNOFF FROM OVERNIGHT AND EARLY
MORNING RAIN REACHES THEM.
 
BETWEEN NEW PRESTON AND NEW MILFORD THE RISING WATER OF THE ASPETUCK
WILL APPROACH HOMES.
 
IF YOU LIVE ALONG A SMALL STREAM...BE PREPARED TO TAKE RAPID ACTION TO
PROTECT LIFE AND YOUR PROPERTY.
 
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.
 
 
 
 
 
&
 
SNYDER

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, 4 hours 11 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

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.