Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT for Rensselaer 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, 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rensselaer County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 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 26 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 022101 FFWALY NYC083-022300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 500 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 * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 454 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM SOUTH OF MECHANICVILLE TO JUST SOUTHWEST OF HOOSICK FALLS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL INCLUDE SCAGHTICOKE...VALLEY FALLS... JOHNSONVILLE...AND HOOSICK 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, ABANDO N IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND.
1 follow-up statement
000 RWUS32 KALY 022201 NYC083-022300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 601 PM EDT WED AUG 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHERN RENSSELAER COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN HAVE MOVED OUT OF NORTHERN RENNSELAER COUNTY AND THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING HAS ENDED.. GENERALLY UP TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN SOME ISOLATED AREAS. THERE STILL IS THE CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING...SO PEOPLE SHOULD STILL BE ALERT FOR QUICKLY RISING STREAMS AND CREEKS...AND PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS.
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, 2:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Rensselaer, Saratoga, Washington | 2 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.