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Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Dec 2, 1996, 1:33 AM EST for Fulton County, Montgomery County, Schoharie County, New York. It was in force for 4 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, 1:33 AM EST (06:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 2, 1996, 6:00 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fulton County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Schoharie County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:34 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 53 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 020634 RRA FFWALB NYC035-057-095-021100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 133 AM EST MON DEC 2 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EASTERN NEW YORK ...FULTON COUNTY...MONTGOMERY COUNTY...SCHOHARIE COUNTY BETWEEN 1 1/2 AND 2 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS FULTON... MONTGOMERY AND SCHOHARIE COUNTIES ON SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT. DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATES ANOTHER AREA OF HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING BETWEEN 1 AND 1 1/2 INCHES OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL MOVE ACROSS THESE COUNTIES BETWEEN 130 AND 400 AM. THIS ADDITONAL RAINFALL WILL FORCE ALREADY SWOLLEN CREEKS AND STREAMS OVER THEIR BANKS. CREEKS ESPECIALLY PRONE TO FLOODING INCLUDE THE KENNYETTO... THE CANAJOHARIE...THE CAROAGA AND THE SPRITE CREEKS. A FLOOD WARNING IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE SCHOHARIE CREEK BELOW THE GILBOA DAM. 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 B EGINS RISING. BLAES /NWSFO ALB
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 41 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, 31 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, 1:10 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Ulster | 11 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
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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.