Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2000, 2:43 PM EDT for Rensselaer County, Saratoga County, Washington County, New York. It was in force for 2 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
- Aug 2, 2000, 2:43 PM EDT (18:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Washington County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:42 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KALY 021847 FFWALY NYC083-091-115-022100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 243 PM EDT WED AUG 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN RENSSELAER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK SARATOGA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK * UNTIL 500 PM EDT * AT 236 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHER SARATOGA AND NORTHWESTERN RENSSELAER COUNTY...MOVING EAST AROUND 20 MPH. SOME OF THE FOLLOWING CITIES WILL BE AFFECTED... REXFORD...CLIFTON PARK...MECHANICVILLE...SCHAGHTICOKE...RIVERSIDE...JOHNSONVILLE AND VALLEY 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 9:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Herkimer | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 5:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Rensselaer | 2 hr |
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.