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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 2000, 4:40 PM EDT for Schenectady County, 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
- Jul 16, 2000, 4:40 PM EDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2000, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 498 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KALY 162041 FFWALY NYC093-095-170230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 440 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SCHENECTADY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK SCHOHARIE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK * UNTIL 1030 PM EDT * AT 427 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING THROUGH SCHOHARIE COUNTY AND INTO SCHENECTADY COUNTY. THEY WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. STREAMS AND CREEKS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED INCLUDE COBLESKILL CREEK...WEST CREEK...FOX CREEK...CRIPPLE BUSH CREEK...LOUSE KILL...KING CREEK...OX KILL...STONY BROOK...LITTLE SCHOHARIE CREEK...PANTHER CREEK...HEATHEN CREEK....BOWMAN CREEK...SOUTH CHUCTANUNDA CREEK...BOZEN KILL...SANDSEA KILL...MOCCASIN KILL...PLOTTER KILL...NORMANS KILL...AND WASHOUT CREEK. $$ 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 8:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady | 6 hr |
| Jul 16, 5:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Washington | 4 hr |
| Jul 16, 3:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Fulton, Montgomery | 6 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.