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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 2000, 4:30 PM EDT for Hamilton County, Herkimer 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2000, 4:30 PM EDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2000, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 317 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -156 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1131 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS51 KALY 102030
FFWALY
NYC041-043-110145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
430 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
HAMILTON COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK
HERKIMER COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...ILION...LITTLE FALLS AND SPECULATOR
* UNTIL 945 PM EDT
* AT 419 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AREAS OF
VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER HERKIMER AND HAMILTON COUNTIES. HEAVY RAIN HAS
BEEN FALLING OVER THAT AREA FOR SEVERAL HOURS...AND IS LIKELY TO
CONTINUE FOR AT LEAST TWO MORE HOURS.
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 IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK
HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 4295 7518 4294 7482 4331 7476 4331 7423
4404 7438 4398 7508 4332 7503The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 10:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 26 min |
| May 10, 7:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer | 64 min |
| May 10, 7:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia, Dutchess | 57 min |
| May 10, 7:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Ulster | 56 min |
| May 10, 8:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 49 min |
| May 10, 9:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Ulster | 60 min |
| May 10, 9:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 57 min |
| May 10, 10:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Ulster | 52 min |
| May 10, 11:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia, Dutchess | 59 min |
| May 10, 12:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Herkimer | 52 min |
| May 10, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Montgomery, Schoharie | 45 min |
| May 10, 1:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Herkimer | 2 hr |
| May 10, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Saratoga | 60 min |
| May 10, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Saratoga | 28 min |
| May 10, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Saratoga | 25 min |
| May 10, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer | 28 min |
| May 10, 5:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer, Washington | 24 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 2000Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.