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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Albany, NY

June 25, 2000Berkshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 2000, 11:02 PM EDT for Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 2000, 11:02 PM EDT (03:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2000, 6:00 AM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Berkshire County, MA

The nearest sounding before it

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1004 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 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 260308
FFWALY
MAC003-261000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1102 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS

* UNTIL 600 AM EDT

* AT 1100 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN 9 MILES EAST OF ADAMS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

RADAR INDICATED 3 INCHES OR MORE OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER NORTHERN
BERKSHIRE COUNTY AND RADAR SHOWS ANOTHER AREA OF LIGHTER SHOWERS
WHICH MAY PASS OVER NORTHERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY IN THE EARLY MORNING
HOURS. REPORTS OF FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND BRIDGE WASHOUTS HAVE
BEEN RECEIVED FROM NEW ASHFORD AND CHESHIRE.  THE CHESHIRE RESERVOIR
IS SPILLING OVER.

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.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IGT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK
HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 4269 7327 4248 7328 4212 6952 4285 6948

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 8:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Berkshire	69 min
Jun 25, 9:35 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Berkshire	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Massachusetts, 2000 Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.