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Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Albany, NY

August 3, 2000Berkshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 2000, 5:35 PM EDT for Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 115 min. 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, 5:35 PM EDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
115 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Berkshire County, MA

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 62 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 696 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KALY 032136
FFWALY
MAC003-032330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
535 PM EDT THU AUG 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT

* AT 518 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN ACROSS NORTHERN BERKSHIRE AND SOUTHEASTERN RENSSELAER COUNTIES
  MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WILLIAMSTOWN...NEW ASHFORD...
  PITTSFIELD...ADAMS...HANCOCK...AND CHESHIRE.

DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS
PARTS OF NORTHERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON.  THUNDERSTORMS
CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THIS AREA
THROUGH 7 PM.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 5:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYBerkshire47 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Massachusetts, 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.