Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Albany, NY
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.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 9:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Herkimer | 52 min |
| Jul 3, 9:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Montgomery, Schoharie | 48 min |
| Jul 3, 9:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Greene | 45 min |
| Jul 4, 2:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery, Schoharie | 91 min |
| Jul 4, 2:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Hamilton | 91 min |
| Jul 4, 4:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Schenectady, Schoharie | 118 min |
| Jul 4, 4:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Greene | 118 min |
| Jul 4, 7:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Schoharie | 56 min |
Nearby
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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.