Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Dec 17, 2000, 9:59 AM EST for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut; Columbia County, Dutchess County, New York; Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 17, 2000, 9:59 AM EST (14:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 17, 2000, 4:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Berkshire County, MA, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:58 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, 3.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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 171501
FFWALY
CTC005-MAC003-NYC021-027-172100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
959 AM EST SUN DEC 17 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
COLUMBIA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK
DUTCHESS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK
WESTERN LITCHFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT
BERKSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
* UNTIL 400 PM EST
* AT 952 AM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
RAIN OVER COPAKE. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.
* THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR...
OVER COPAKE AT 1225 PM EST
VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH THUNDERSTORMS HAS BEEN PRODUCING RAINFALL AT
THE RATE OF OVER AN INCH AN HOUR...WITH TWO TO TWO AND A HALF INCHES
OF RAIN ALREADY REPORTED. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL
CONTINUE INTO THE AFTERNOON.
ROAD FLOODING HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED IN PITTSFIELD...LENOX...LEE
AND CLAVERACK. RIVER AND STREAMS LEVELS WILL RISE RAPIDLY WITH
FLOODING LIKELY. IF YOU LIVE IN AN AREA PRONE TO FLOODING BE READY
TO 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.
LAT...LON 4244 7376 4211 7385 4195 7391 4154 7389
4160 7325 4252 7302 4272 7311 4247 73|37
CORRECTED FOR FORMATThe office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 9:50 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Northwest Hills Planning Region | 6 hr |
| Dec 17, 10:33 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Northwest Hills Planning Region | 6 hr |
| Dec 17, 3:55 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Northwest Hills Planning Region | 3 hr |
| Dec 17, 11:50 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Albany, Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 17, 9:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 65 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 2000Flash Flood Warnings in Connecticut, 2000Flash 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.