Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998

Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Albany, NY

January 10, 1998Saratoga County, Warren County, Washington County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jan 10, 1998, 4:05 AM EST for Saratoga County, Warren County, Washington County, New York. It was in force for 8 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
Jan 10, 1998, 4:05 AM EST (09:05 UTC)
Expired
Jan 10, 1998, 12:00 PM EST
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Saratoga County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 71 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 00:00Z on 1998-01-10Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1998-01-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -115 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
439 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-14 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.

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, Jan 9, 11:32 PM EST, 4 hours 33 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP A
1131PM     FRI JAN 09 1998
AOPK WLSR
00152    FILE 28   SP BOSTON NY1140500                       JAN 09-98
TO z      SP BATAVIA

ROADS-  DRY

WEATHER - CLOUDY

TEMP - 35 DEGREES

AUTH AND SENT TPR SEAN T O'ROURKE        11-30PM
OPER - HIGGINS,WILLIAM J              2331

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 10, 4:05 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningALYHamilton, Herkimer8 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.