Alert archive / Vermont / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 61, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Dec 2, 1996, 7:05 AM EST for Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont. 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, 7:05 AM EST (12:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 2, 1996, 11:00 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 92 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -234 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Dec 2, 4:15 AM EST, 2 hours 50 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP C
0416AM MON DEC 02 1996
CBSO WLSR QHQT QTRF WAPT APTS
06804 FILE 28 DEC 02-96
TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
ATTENTION SEMO DUTY OFFICER
HEAVY RAINFALL & FLOODING
DETAILS CONCERNING EVENT: DUE TO HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE PAST 24 HRS SOME
ROADWAYS ARE NOW BECOMING COVERED WITH WATER.
COUNTY(S) AFFECTED: BROOME
LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD): FOLEY RD T/KIRKWOOD / MERRILL
CREEK RD T/TRIANGLE / SANTIARA SPRINGS RD T/COLESVILLE
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: 12-01-96 2300 HRS
DATE AND TIME CONDITION ENDED: UNKNOWN
EXTENT OF DAMAGE OR AREAS IN DANGER: MINIMAL DAMAGE REPORTEDNUMBER KILLED: NUMBER INJURED:
REMARKS: SOME HOMEOWNERS ARE REPORTING FLOODING IN BASEMENTS / ROADWAY CULVERTS
AND STORM DRAINS ARE BECOMING BLOCKED CAUSING POOR DRAINAGE.
AUTH PHONE #: 607 778-1911
AUTH EMERG MGR MICHAEL F ASWAD DAVIDSON 4-13 AM
OPER - DAVIDSON,JAMES CHRISTOPHER 0415The 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, 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 |
| Dec 2, 6:40 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Northwest Hills Planning Region | 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.