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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Albany, NY

June 6, 2000Schoharie County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT for Schoharie 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
Jun 6, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 2000, 1:30 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Schoharie County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 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 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 51 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 2000-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 99 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
914 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
383 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KALY 062330
FFWALY
NYC095-070530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
730 PM EDT TUE JUN 6 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SCHOHARIE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK

* UNTIL 130 AM EDT

* AT 725 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY
  HEAVY RAIN MOVING WEST INTO SCHOHARIE COUNTY. RAIN...HEAVY AT
  TIMES WILL FALL FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS
  OF 1.5 TO 3 INCHES HAVE BEEN COMMON ACROSS SCHOHARIE COUNTY AND
  ANOTHER 0.5 TO 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN IS EXPECTED. THIS WILL RESULT IN
  MANY CREEKS AND STREAMS RISING TO AT OR ABOVE BANKFULL. IN ADDITION
  MUDSLIDES ARE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS WHERE THE GROUND HAS
  BEEN WEAKENED BY PREVIOUS STORMS.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 4:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYGreene, Ulster6 hr
Jun 6, 6:13 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYAlbany6 hr

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.