Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at May 13, 2000, 5:55 PM EDT for Fulton County, Montgomery County, Warren 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2000, 5:55 PM EDT (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2000, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fulton County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Warren County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KALY 132156 COR FFWALB NYC035-057-140100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 555 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... FULTON COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...GLOVERSVILLE...JOHNSTOWN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF AMSTERDAM * UNTIL 900 PM EDT * AT 545 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF GLOVERSVILLE TO 9 MILES NORTH OF ST. JOHNSVILLE TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST. JOHNSVILLE...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF GLOVERSVILLE TO 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF LITTLE FALLS TO 8 MILES SOUTH OF LITTLE FALLS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR... OVER FORT PLAIN AT 610 PM EDT OVER CANAJOHARIE AT 615 PM EDT OVER GLOVERSVILLE AT 640 PM EDT OVER JOHNSTOWN AT 645 PM EDT OTHER STORMS OVER THE WESTERN MOHAWK VALLEY WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST INTO FULTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY THROUGH 800 PM. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS OVER 4 INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED. STREET FLOODING WILL BE WIDESPREAD WITH FLOODING EXPECTED ALONG SOME CREEKS AND STREAMS IN THE EASTERN MOHAWK VALLEY AS WELL AS THE MOHAWK RIVER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. 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 REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN ALBANY.
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS51 KALY 132155 FFWALY NYC035-057-113-140100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 555 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... FULTON COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...GLOVERSVILLE...JOHNSTOWN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF AMSTERDAM * UNTIL 900 PM EDT * AT 545 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF GLOVERSVILLE TO 9 MILES NORTH OF ST. JOHNSVILLE TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST. JOHNSVILLE...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF GLOVERSVILLE TO 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF LITTLE FALLS TO 8 MILES SOUTH OF LITTLE FALLS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR... OVER FORT PLAIN AT 610 PM EDT OVER CANAJOHARIE AT 615 PM EDT OVER GLOVERSVILLE AT 640 PM EDT OVER JOHNSTOWN AT 645 PM EDT OTHER STORMS OVER THE WESTERN MOHAWK VALLEY WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST INTO FULTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY THROUGH 800 PM. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS OVER 4 INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED. STREET FLOODING WILL BE WIDESPREAD WITH FLOODING EXPECTED ALONG SOME CREEKS AND STREAMS IN THE EASTERN MOHAWK VALLEY AS WELL AS THE MOHAWK RIVER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. 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 REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN ALBANY.
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, 4:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Herkimer | 3 hr |
| 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, 6:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ALY | Montgomery | 37 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.