Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 1997, 1:06 AM EDT for Essex County, Franklin County, New York. It was in force for 69 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 1997, 1:06 AM EDT (05:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1997, 2:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Essex County, NY, Franklin County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1361 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 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.
NWS Burlington, VT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 2, 9:05 PM EDT, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 9:05 PM EDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 905 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 1997 KCXX VRY ACTIVE ATTM...ALTHOUGH TREND IS WEAKENING ACTVTY. CRNT ACTVTY ALG CAN/US BDR APPRS TO BE COLD FRONT AND ACTVTY SHLD CONT ALG FRNT UNTIL IT PASSES. NO REAL TIME TO PLAY WITH UPDATE...WUD FVR MNTN OF TSTM FOR CHAMPL VLY/NRN VT TIL MIDNIGHT WITH PSBL SHOWERS THEREAFTER. STL A THREAT OF SHOWERS IN ST.LWRNC/ADRNDKS BASED ON -SHRA ACTVTY UPSTREAM TOWARD MONTREAL. GOT TO GO...BYE SLW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | St. Lawrence | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 12:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | St. Lawrence | 62 min |
| Aug 3, 1:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Essex, Franklin | 69 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.