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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Albany, NY

May 13, 2000Herkimer County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at May 13, 2000, 4:58 PM EDT for Herkimer County, New York. It was in force for 3 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 13, 2000, 4:58 PM EDT (20:58 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Herkimer County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 588 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KALY 132058
FFWALY
NYC043-140000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
458 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HERKIMER COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF HERKIMER...ILION AND LITTLE FALLS

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 456 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN 16 MILES NORTH OF HERKIMER...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF LITTLE
  FALLS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. IN ADDITION MORE STORMS OVER
  THE WESTERN MOHAWK VALLEY WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AND THESE WILL
  PASS THROUGH HERKIMER COUNTY IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. EXPECT
  RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS UP TO 4
  INCHES. FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG THE EAST AND WEST CANADA
  CREEKS AND THEIR TRIBUTARIES AS WELL AS ALONG THE MOHAWK RIVER...
  ESPECIALLY NEAR LITTLE FALLS.


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 IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK
HIGHER GROUND.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
RELAY YOUR 3REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
ALBANY.

LAT...LON 4291 7512 4296 7488 4402 7486 4408 7515

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 4:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Herkimer	35 min
May 13, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Herkimer	44 min
May 13, 5:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton	26 min
May 13, 5:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Fulton, Montgomery, Warren	3 hr
May 13, 6:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Montgomery	37 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.