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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Albany, NY

January 8, 19984 counties in New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jan 8, 1998, 12:50 AM EST for 4 counties in New York. It was in force for 21 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 8, 1998, 12:50 AM EST (05:50 UTC)
Expired
Jan 8, 1998, 10:00 PM EST
In force
21 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Fulton County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Montgomery County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 89 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 1998-01-08Temperature 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 1998-01-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 254 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
487 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
254 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
300 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 7, 9:34 PM EST, 3 hours 16 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP B
0933PM     WED JAN 07 1998
BPLA WLSR APTS
00221       FILE 28  SP PLATTSBURGH NY1090100          JAN 07-98
TO          NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

REF MESA 00219 FILE DATE RE ROAD CONDITION REPORT

DAVISON ROAD REOPENED - WORK COMPLETED

AUTH Z/SGT DAVID A DEVOE

OPER - DUTKO,CHARLES A JR             2132

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 8, 12:50 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningALYRensselaer, Saratoga, Warren, Washington21 hr
Jan 8, 12:50 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningALYColumbia, Dutchess21 hr
Jan 8, 12:50 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningALYAlbany, Greene, Schenectady, Schoharie21 hr
Jan 8, 12:50 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningALYUlster21 hr
Jan 8, 5:20 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningALYUlster23 hr
Jan 8, 5:20 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningALYRensselaer, Saratoga, Warren, Washington23 hr
Jan 8, 5:20 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningALYColumbia, Dutchess23 hr
Jan 8, 5:20 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningALYAlbany, Greene, Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie23 hr
Jan 8, 5:20 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningALYFulton, Hamilton, Herkimer23 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.