Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Dec 2, 1996, 1:10 AM EST for Ulster County, New York. It was in force for 11 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
- Dec 2, 1996, 1:10 AM EST (06:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 2, 1996, 12:00 PM EST
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ulster County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:10 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, 6.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 522 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 427 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 633 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KALB 020613 FFWALB NYC111-021300- BULLETIN-EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 110 AM EST MON DEC 2 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING THROUGH NOON MONDAY FOR THE ESOPUS CREEK ABOVE THE ASHOKAN RESERVOIR. NEARLY THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST 24 HOURS OVER THE SOUTHERN CATSKILLS. AN ADDITIONAL 1/2 TO 3/4 INCH WILL FALL BEFORE THE RAIN TAPERS OFF LATE TONIGHT. THE ESOPUS CREEK AT MT. TREMPER HAS BEEN RISING RAPIDLY TONIGHT. AT 1 AM THE RIVER HAD RISEN TO 10.9 FEET WHICH IS JUST BELOW THE 11 FOOT FLOOD STAGE. THE RIVER WILL CREST NEAR 12 FEET BY ABOUT 7 AM MONDAY. BY NOON THE RIVER WILL BE BACK BELOW FLOOD STAGE. THE ASHOKAN DAM WILL IMPOUND THE FLOOD WATERS...AND THERE SHOULD BE NO FLOODING DOWNSTREAM OF THE ASHOKAN. IF YOU LIVE ALONG THE ESOPUS CREEK...DOWNSTREAM FROM THE GILBOA DAM BE PREPARED FOR FLOODING. BE ESPECIALLY ALERT IF YOU/RE TRAVELING. DON/T DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADS AND REMEMBER...FLOOD DANGERS ARE ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE AT NIGHT.
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, Dec 1, 9:52 PM EST, 3 hours 18 minutes before
NYZ041>043-050>054-058>061-063>066-VTZ011>014-MAZ001-CTZ001- 020600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 955 PM EST SUN DEC 1 1996 ...STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL A LITTLE AFTER MIDNIGHT AND THEN GRADUALLY DIE DOWN OVERNIGHT... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN NEW YORK AND WESTERN NEW ENGLAND THROUGH 1 AM MONDAY MORNING. WINDS WILL BE ESPECIALLY STRONG AT ELEVATIONS ABOVE 1000 FEET...ALTHOUGH STRONG WIND GUSTS MAY OCCUR IN VALLEYS...WITH HEAVY SHOWERS. THERE HAVE BEEN SCATTERED REPORTS OF DOWNED TREES AND POWER OUTAGES ACROSS THE REGION. LOCAL POWER OUTAGES REMAIN POSSIBLE UNTIL THE WINDS DIE DOWN LATER TONIGHT. WHEN DRIVING BE PREPARED FOR SUDDEN STRONG GUSTS OF WIND THAT COULD JAR YOUR VEHICLE OFF COURSE. HAVE A FIRM GRIP ON THE STEERING WHEEL. HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES...SUCH AS VANS...ARE MOST LIKELY TO BE EFFECTED BY THE WIND. HWJIV/LAPENTA
Special weather statement, Dec 2, 1:02 AM EST, 8 minutes before
NYZ041>043-050>054-058>061-063>066-VTZ011>014-MAZ001-CTZ001- 020700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 100 AM MON DEC 2 1996 ...THE WIND WILL SLOWLY DIMINISH OVERNIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ALLOWED THE WIND ADVISORY FOR EASTERN NEW YORK AND WESTERN NEW ENGLAND TO EXPIRE. WHILE THE WIND WILL CONTINUE TO BLOW FROM THE SOUTH 15 TO 30 MPH FOR AWHILE...THIS IS GENERALLY NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO PRODUCE ANY DAMAGE. THE WIND WILL SLOWLY RELAX TOWARD DAYBREAK AS IT TURNS MORE TO THE WEST. HWJIV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2, 12:35 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Hamilton, Herkimer | 5 hr |
| Dec 2, 1:33 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Fulton, Montgomery, Schoharie | 4 hr |
| Dec 2, 3:25 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Ulster | 9 hr |
| Dec 2, 3:35 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Greene | 7 hr |
| Dec 2, 3:35 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Washington | 7 hr |
| Dec 2, 6:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Montgomery, Schoharie | 4 hr |
| Dec 2, 6:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer | 4 hr |
| Dec 2, 6:58 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Warren | 4 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.