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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Albany, NY

February 28, 1997Fulton County, Herkimer County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Feb 28, 1997, 12:00 PM EST for Fulton County, Herkimer 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
Feb 28, 1997, 12:00 PM EST (17:00 UTC)
Expired
Feb 28, 1997, 4:00 PM EST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Fulton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 95 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1997-02-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1997-02-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -106 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
675 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
79 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 28, 12:00 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningALYFulton, Herkimer16 hr
Feb 28, 7:55 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningALYFulton, Herkimer4 hr
Feb 28, 3:45 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningALYFulton, Herkimer6 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.