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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Albany, NY

July 4, 1999Fulton County, Herkimer County, Montgomery County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 4, 1999, 6:17 AM EDT for Fulton County, Herkimer County, Montgomery County, New York. It was in force for 6 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
Jul 4, 1999, 6:17 AM EDT (10:17 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 1999, 12:00 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

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

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 81 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 1999-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 169 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 00:00Z on 1999-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 124 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
169 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1650 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
237 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.4

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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 Albany, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 4, 2:13 AM EDT, 4 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 2:13 AM EDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
213 AM EDT SUN JUL 4 1999

.DISC...

.SYNOPSIS...SLOLY MOVG WMFNT ACRS CNTRL NY INTO NEW ENG. AMS BCMS
MORE UNSTBL THRU MON AS LLVL MOISTURE AND HEAT INCRS. SML VOT MAX
MOVG THRU ERY THIS MRNG. AVA FCST MON SHOULD SUPPRESS TSTMS ACRS
KALY/S CWA.

.SHORT TERM...MAIN CONCERN IS IN THE SHORT TERM FOR THE LRG COMPLEX
OF TSTMS/HVY RN LK ONT MOVG SEWD. WL HILITE ALL KALY/S CWA FOR FFA
THIS MRNG AS 6+ INCHES OF RN FELL IN 3 HRS WITH THIS CONVECTION. ONCE
THIS MOVS THRU DON/T XPC MUCH OTHER THAN SCTD TSTMS. MAXT ARND 90 XCP
IN HILLS/MTNS WHERE LWR.

.LONG TERM...GEM MDL HAS BEEN HANDLING PCPN BEST AND WL GO WITH IT
FOR TNGT. IT BRINGS ANOTHER ROUND OF TSTMS MNLY ACRS NRN ZNS ON THE
NOSE OF INCRG LL WND MAX. MIN/T GENLLY ARND 70...HIR HDSVLY.

ETA SAYS EVEN HOTTER MON...WITH H8/H10 THKNS OVR 1440 M AND H10 TEMP
IN LWR 90S IN SERN NY. BULK OF SUPPORT OF CONVECTION SHOULD BE NRN
NY/NRN VT CLOSER TO SFC FNT.

RELEASING ZNS IMMEDIATELY TO GET OUT FFA WITHOUT HAVING TO AMD PREV
ZNS SO WE CAN CONCENTRATE ON APCHG TSTMS AND PSBL FLD SITUATION.

.ALY...FFA ALL KALY/S CWA FOR THIS MRNG.

KHH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 9:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHerkimer52 min
Jul 3, 9:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYMontgomery, Schoharie48 min
Jul 3, 9:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYAlbany, Greene45 min
Jul 4, 2:59 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYFulton, Herkimer, Montgomery, Schoharie91 min
Jul 4, 2:59 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHamilton91 min
Jul 4, 4:37 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYAlbany, Schenectady, Schoharie118 min
Jul 4, 4:37 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYGreene118 min
Jul 4, 7:14 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYSchoharie56 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 1999Every flash flood warning in 1999

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.