Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this flash flood warning at Jan 9, 1998, 3:12 PM EST for St. Lawrence County, New York. It was in force for 48 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
- Jan 9, 1998, 3:12 PM EST (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 9, 1998, 4:00 PM EST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Whole counties
County St. Lawrence County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBTV 092017 RRA FFWBTV NYC089-102000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED FOR TRANSMISSION TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 312 PM EST FRI JAN 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON VT HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH NEW YORK ...ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY NEW YORK TROUGH SATURDAY... RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS...SOME STILL FREEZING...WILL CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING. GREATER THAN 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN DURING THE LAST 2 DAYS AND UP TO AN ADDITIONAL 1/2 INCH OF RAIN MAY FALL THROUGH FIRDAY EVENING. COLD TEMPERATURES AND ICING APPARENTLY DELAYED RUNOFF INTO RIVERS...BUT SIGNIFICANT STEADY RISES ARE CONTINUING IN THE HEADWATERS AND THREATENING RIVER FLOODING. ALL STREAMS AND RIVERS IN ST LAWRENCE COUNTY SHOULD BE MONITORED FOR POTENTIAL FLOODING. SPECIFIC PROBLEMS HAVE ALREADY DEVELOPED NEAR THE HEADWATERS OF THE RAQUETTE AND OSWEGATCHIE RIVERS. AT PIERCEFIELD NEW YORK THE FLOOD STAGE OF 9 FEET ON THE RAQUETTE RIVER WILL BE EXCEEDED BEFORE 4 PM FRIDAY. THE SLOW MOVING FLOOD CREST ON THE RAQUETTE RIVER WILL MOVE DOWNSTREAM TOWARD POTSDAM AND MASSENA NEW YORK OVERNIGHT. NEAR PITCARIN NEW YORK ON THE WEST BRANCH OF THE OSWEGATCHIE RIVER THE RTE 812 BRIDGE IS CLOSED AND VERY HIGH RIVER VOLUME HAS BEEN OBSERVED AT THE BROWNS FALLS DAM. THE SLOW MOVING FLOOD CREST ON THE OSWEGATCHIE RIVER WILL MOVE DOWNSTREAM THROUGH GOUVENEUR AND TOWARD OGDENSBURG OVERNIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR UPDATES ON THE FLOOD WARNING. BELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 7:35 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Clinton | 19 hr |
| Jan 8, 7:35 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Essex | 19 hr |
| Jan 9, 4:12 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | St. Lawrence | 24 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.