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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Albany, NY

May 11, 1996Greene County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at May 11, 1996, 8:50 PM EDT for Greene 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: May 11, 1996, 8:50 PM EDT (00:50 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 1996, 8:00 AM EDT
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Greene County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 52 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 500 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 4 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 120057
FFWALB
NYC039-121200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
850 PM EDT SAT MAY 11 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM EDT SUNDAY MORNING
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK

   ...GREENE COUNTY

RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF 2.5 INCHES HAS FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF THE
CATSKILLS. AS A RESULT SOME STREAMS IN THESE AREAS ARE REACHING
BANKFULL AND WILL START FLOWING INTO ADJACENT LOW LYING AREAS.

IN GREENE COUNTY THE CATSKILL CREEK AND THE SCHOHARIE CREEK WILL
LIKELY APPROACH BANKFULL...AND SMALLER TRIBUTARIES MAY FLOOD LOW LYING
FIELDS OR ROADS.

THE HEAVIEST RAIN WILL MOVE OUT OF THE AREA THIS EVENING BUT IT WILL
TAKE TIME FOR RUNOFF TO TAPER OFF AND LIGHTER RAIN WILL FALL DURING
THE NIGHT...FURTHER ADDING TO THE RUNOFF.

IF YOU LIVE IN THESE AREAS BE ALERT FOR FLOODING AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE
TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.

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 PWATER BEGINS RISING.

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, May 11, 5:49 PM EDT, 3 hours 1 minute before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP F
0549PM     SAT MAY 11 1996
FCSD WLSR QHQT QTRF APTS WAPT
01093    FILE 28   ORANGE COUNTY SO NY0350003                MAY 11-96
TO       NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
         ATTENTION SEMO DUTY OFFICER

                              TORNADO REPORT

COUNTY(S) AFFECTED: ORANGE

CHECK ONE OR MORE AS APPROPRIATE:
( ) - REPORT BASED UPON DAMAGE
(X) - FUNNEL CLOUD ACTUALLY SIGHTED (SEND ADDED INFO MESSAGE)
( ) - WATER SPOUT ACTUALLY SIGHTED (SEND ADDED INFO MESSAGE)
LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD): TOWN OF GOSHEN AND TOWN OF
HAMPTONBURGH
NAME AND ADDRESS OF PERSON(S) REPORTING TORNADO(S): DOMINIC GREENE
ORANGE COUNTY EMO

DATE AND TIME OF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN: 051196 1731HRS
PLACE OF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN: BETWEEN FLORIDA AND GOSHEN / STONY FORD GOLF COURSE
DIRECTION OF TORNADO TRAVEL: NORTH EAST
ESTIMATED WIDTH OF TORNADO AT GROUND: UNK
ESTIMATED LENGTH OF TORNADO PATH: UNK
PLACE OF TORNADO LIFTOFF: UNK
DAMAGE REPORTED TO (CHECK): ( )-CROPS       ( )-FARM BLDGS
( )-POWER/TELCO LINES ( )-POWER/TELCO POLES ( )-SMALL TREES
( )-LARGE TREES       ( )-PRIVATE HOMES     ( )-COMM. BLDGS
( )-OTHER (SPECIFY) UNK AT THIS TIME

NUMBER OF FATALITIES: UNK        NUMBER OF INJURED: UNK
REMARKS:

AUTH PHONE #: 914 294-7422

AUTH DOMINICK GREENE, ASST. DIRECTOR ORANGE EMO     SGT HAAS/05:50PM

OPER - HAAS,GEORGE R                  1749

Special weather statement, May 11, 7:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

NYZ063>066-CTZ001-120100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
740 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 1996

...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR ULSTER AND DUTCHESS COUNTIES IN NEW YORK
AND FOR LITCHFIELD COUNTY CONNECTICUT HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE REGION AND THE THREAT OF DAMAGING
WIND...HAIL AND TORNADOES NO LONGER EXISTS IN THESE COUNTIES.  EARLIER
THIS EVENING THERE WERE SEVERAL REPORTS OF WIND DAMAGE ACROSS CENTRAL
ULSTER COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF ACCORD.

MAGLARAS

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.