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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 2000, 4:29 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 3, 2000, 4:29 PM EDT (20:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2000, 6:30 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 20:31 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, 8.5 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
- 696 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 822 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KALY 032030 FFWALY NYC083-032230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 429 PM EDT THU AUG 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS EXTENDED THE... * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN RENSSELAER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 419 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHERN RENSSELAER COUNTY. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE NASSAU...HOAG CORNERS...EAST SCHODACK...WEST STEPHENTOWN...AND AVERIL PARK. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN RENSSELAER COUNTY FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT HOUR. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES UP TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER PARTS OF THIS AREA. 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 3, 12:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer, Saratoga, Washington | 51 min |
| Aug 3, 1:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer | 39 min |
| Aug 3, 2:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Rensselaer | 113 min |
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.