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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Albany, NY

July 9, 1997Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 1997, 6:13 PM EDT for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 2 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: Jul 9, 1997, 6:13 PM EDT (22:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 1997, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 106 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: 1101 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 936 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KALB 092214
FFWALB
CTC005-100015-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
613 PM EDT WED JUL 9 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT
 
   ...SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD COUNTY
 
UPWARDS OF THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN IN NEW MILFORD
AND TWO AND ONE-HALF INCHES IN WOODBURY.  ANOTHER ONE HALF INCH OF
RAIN IS EXPECTED BETWEEN 630 PM AND 730 PM THIS EVENING.
 
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

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, Jul 9, 3:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
358 PM EDT WED JUL 09 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0305 PM    GREAT BARRINGTON          MA   WIND DAMAGE
07/09/97   BERKSHIRE                      TREE DOWN NEAR ALFORD

0310 PM    GREAT BARRINGTON          MA   WIND DAMAGE
07/09/97   BERKSHIRE                      TREES DOWN

BLAES /NWSFO ALY

Local storm report, Jul 9, 4:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
358 PM EDT WED JUL 09 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0305 PM    GREAT BARRINGTON          MA   WIND DAMAGE
07/09/97   BERKSHIRE                      TREE DOWN NEAR ALFORD

0310 PM    GREAT BARRINGTON          MA   WIND DAMAGE
07/09/97   BERKSHIRE                      TREES DOWN

BLAES /NWSFO ALY

Local storm report, Jul 9, 4:43 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
443 PM EDT WED JUL 09 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0410 PM    THOMASTON                 CT   WIND DAMAGE
07/09/97   LITCHFIELD                     TREE DOWN BETWEEN 410-410
                                          M

0410 PM    THOMASTON                 CT   WIND DAMAGE
07/09/97   LITCHFIELD                     POLE DOWN

BLAES /NWSFO ALY

Local storm report, Jul 9, 4:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
443 PM EDT WED JUL 09 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0410 PM    THOMASTON                 CT   WIND DAMAGE
07/09/97   LITCHFIELD                     TREE DOWN BETWEEN 410-410
                                          M

0410 PM    THOMASTON                 CT   WIND DAMAGE
07/09/97   LITCHFIELD                     POLE DOWN

BLAES /NWSFO ALY

Special weather statement, Jul 9, 5:35 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

NYZ053-054-058-059-060-061-063-064-065-066-MAZ001-CTZ001-092230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
535 PM EDT WED JUL 9 1997

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR RENSSELAER...GREENE...ULSTER AND
COLUMBIA COUNTIES IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

THE SEVERE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM IN DUTCHESS COUNTY NEW
YORK...BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS AND LITCHFIELD COUNTY CONNECTICUT.

Special weather statement, Jul 9, 5:36 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

NYZ053-054-058-059-060-061-063-064-065-066-MAZ001-CTZ001-092230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
535 PM EDT WED JUL 9 1997

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR RENSSELAER...GRFEENE...ULSTER AND
COLUMBIA COUNTIES IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

THE SEVERE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM IN DUTCHESS COUNTY NEW
YORK...BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS AND LITCHFIELD COUNTY CONNECTICUT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 2:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	58 min
Jul 9, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	45 min

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.