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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Albany, NY

January 9, 1998Albany County, Columbia County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jan 9, 1998, 3:42 PM EST for Albany County, Columbia County, New York. It was in force for . No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 9, 1998, 3:42 PM EST (20:42 UTC)
Expired
Jan 9, 1998, 7:00 AM EST
In force
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 30 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 1998-01-09Temperature 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 1998-01-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 225 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
398 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
225 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
266 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 8, 8:59 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningALYFulton, Herkimer, Montgomery8 hr
Jan 8, 9:33 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningALYRensselaer14 hr
Jan 9, 1:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHamilton55 min
Jan 9, 1:21 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHerkimer74 min
Jan 9, 1:57 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYSchoharie78 min
Jan 9, 3:42 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningALYFulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady and 2 more15 hr
Jan 9, 3:42 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningALYGreene, Schoharie, Ulster15 hr
Jan 9, 3:42 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningALYHerkimer15 hr
Jan 9, 3:42 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningALYDutchess15 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.