Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998

Flash Flood Warning 108, NWS Burlington, VT

June 29, 1998Clinton County, New York

NWS Burlington, VT issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 1998, 5:04 PM EDT for Clinton County, New York. It was in force for 3 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
Jun 29, 1998, 5:04 PM EDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1998, 8:05 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Burlington, VT
Area
Whole counties

County Clinton County, NY

The radar

The Burlington radar (KCXX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 229 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 1998-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 142 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1998-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
142 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
666 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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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.

NWS Burlington, VT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 29, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT
230 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998

SEVERE CELLS ACROSS QUEBEC (SPLITTING CELLS). PROFILES SHOW CAPPED
UNTIL THIS EVENING ACROSS FORECAST AREA. STILL EXPECT ACTIVITY TO
GET CRANKING AND THE LONGER IT WAITS...THE GREATER THE INSTABILITY
GETS.

SHORT WAVE APPROACHING NORTH FORECAST AREA THIS EVENING. THIS COULD
ENHANCE ACTIVITY ALONG CANADIAN BORDER. ACTIVITY COULD EXTEND WELL
INTO NIGHT TIME HOURS AS ENVIRONMENT IS RIPE FOR SUPERCELLS.

DEWPOINTS OF LOW AND MID 60S AND PRECIPITABLE WATERS OF 1 1/2 INCHES
WILL ENSURE HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

TROUGH TO COME THROUGH MID MORNING/EARLY AFTERNOON TUESDAY WITH COLD
FRONT TUESDAY EVENING. H5 TROUGH AND VORTICITY MAXIMA TO COME
THROUGH ON WEDNESDAY. LOOKS AS THOUGH THREAT FOR PRECIPITATION EACH
PERIOD.

FORECAST SUGGESTIONS...

TONIGHT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL
CONTAIN TORRENTIAL RAIN AND POSSIBLY DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL. LOW IN
THE MID 60S. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 20 MPH.

TUESDAY...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY. HIGH IN THE LOW AND MID
80S. SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WIND 10 TO 20 MPH.

TUESDAY NIGHT...EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY THEN PARTLY
CLOUDY OVERNIGHT. LOW AROUND 60.

WEDNESDAY...A MIX OF SUN AND CLOUDS WITH A GOOD CHANCE OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH 70 TO 75.

DIGIORGI

The office that day

Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 4:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVGrand Isle65 min
Jun 29, 5:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVChittenden, Franklin59 min
Jun 29, 6:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVLamoille62 min
Jun 29, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVCaledonia, Washington74 min
Jun 29, 7:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVOrange61 min
Jun 29, 7:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVCaledonia61 min
Jun 29, 6:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVFranklin, St. Lawrence94 min
Jun 29, 6:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVFranklin89 min

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.