Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Dec 17, 2000, 3:55 PM EST for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut; 4 counties in New York; Berkshire County, Massachusetts. 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 17, 2000, 3:55 PM EST (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 17, 2000, 6:45 PM EST
- In force
- 3 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, Greene County, NY, Ulster County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 63 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 172058 FFWALY CTC005-MAC003-NYC021-027-039-111-172345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 355 PM EST SUN DEC 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NEW YORK HAS EXTENDED THE * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NEW YORK... COLUMBIA DUTCHESS GREENE ULSTER AND FOR LITCHFIELD COUNTY CONNECTICUT AND FOR BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS * UNTIL 645 PM EST * AT 350 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THIS AREA THROUGH 6 PM. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL PROLONG OR CREATE NEW FLOODING CONDITIONS IN THESE COUNTIES. 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 4251 7315 4168 7311 4168 7437 4231 7439
The 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, 9:59 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, 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.