Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 22, 1999, 6:47 AM EST for Ulster County, New York. It was in force for 5 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
- Mar 22, 1999, 6:47 AM EST (11:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 1999, 11:45 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ulster County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 1662 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 478 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 KALB 221147 FFWALB CTC005-NYC111-221645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 647 AM EST MON MAR 22 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ULSTER COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK LITCHFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT * UNTIL 1145 AM EST * THE ESPOUS CREEK IS ABOUT TO FLOW OUT OF ITS BANKS ABOVE THE ASHOKAN RESERVOIR IN NORTHERN ULSTER COUNTY. ADJACENT STREAMS AND CREEKS ARE ALSO LIKELY TO FLOOD. ROUTE 28 WILL LIKELY BE AFFECTED BY FLOOD WATERS DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. A WEATHER SPOTTER IN LITCHFIELD COUNTY CONNECTICUT OBSERVED THAT THE ASPETUCK RIVERS WERE LEAVING ITS BANKS. OTHER SMALL STREAMS IN LITCHFIELD COUNTY ARE ALSO LIKELY TO LEAVE THEIR CHANNELS THIS MORNING...ESPECIALLY IN THE NEW MILFORD AREA. DON'T DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS! MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.
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, Mar 22, 6:07 AM EST, 40 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP C
0606AM MON MAR 22 1999
CNWH WLSR QHQT QTRF APTS WAPT
00484 FILE 28 PD NORWICH NY0082400 MAR 22-99
TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
ATTENTION SEMO DUTY OFFICER
WINTER STORM REPORT
COUNTY(S) AFFECTED: CITY OF NORWICH CHENANGO CO
LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD): CITY OF NORWICH NY
HEAVY SNOWFALL INFORMATION:
SNOWFALL BEGAN: 9:00 PM 3-21-99 EST LOCAL TIME
SNOWFALL SINCE 12 AM: 8 INCHES
ESTIMATED VISIBILITY: 2 MILE(S)
ESTIMATED WIND SPEED: 0-6 MPH FROM DIRECTION 360
ROADS/AREAS AFFECTED: NYS RTE 12 AND RTE 23
AIR TEMP:32 BARO PRESSURE:29.49
ABOVE INFO FROM LT W. EATON AIRPORT NORWICH, NY
ELECTRICITY OUT IN SOME AREAS BECAUSE OF DOWNED WIRES
SNOWFALL LAST HOUR: 2 INCHES
SNOW ENDED: : M ST LOCAL TIME
OTHER WINTER PERCIPITATION INFORMATION:
FREEZING RAIN:
( ) - NO ACCUMULATION ( ) - DANGEROUS ON ROADS
(X) - ACCUMULATION TREES (X) - TREES DAMAGED
(X) - ACC. POLES/WIRES (X) - POLES/WIRE DAMAGED
IF ACCUMULATION, NUMBER OF INCHES:
DETAILS IF DAMAGE:
OTHER REMARKS (INCLUDING DEATHS OR INJURIES):
HEAVY WET SNOW STILL FALLING STEADILY AT THIS TIME
AUTH PHONE #: 607 334-2424
AUTH/SENT CHIEF JOSEPH ANGELINO 6-05AM
OPER - ANGELINO,JOSEPH G 0605The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 7:06 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Greene | 5 hr |
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.