Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 2000, 2:32 PM EDT for Franklin 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 10, 2000, 2:32 PM EDT (18:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, NY
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 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
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 331 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
- 479 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 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 KBTV 101834 FFWBTV NYC033-102130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 232 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... FRANKLIN COUNTY IN NEW YORK * UNTIL 530 PM EDT * AT 224 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS FRANKLIN COUNTY. THIS ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 5 PM. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WEST BANGOR...TUPPER LAKE... TROUT RIVER...ST. REGIS FALLS...SARANAC INN...SANTA CLARA...RAINBOW LAKE...HOGANSBURG...FORT COVINGTON...DUANE CENTER...DICKINSON... COREYS...CONSTABLE AND CHASM FALLS EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS COULD ALSO TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. 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 bTAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. $$ LAT...LON 4417 7447 4416 7419 4497 7405 4499 7466
The office that day
Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 12:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | St. Lawrence | 57 min |
| May 10, 1:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | St. Lawrence | 39 min |
| May 10, 1:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | St. Lawrence | 3 hr |
| May 10, 1:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Franklin | 57 min |
| May 10, 2:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Clinton | 46 min |
| May 10, 4:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Franklin, St. Lawrence | 3 hr |
| May 10, 7:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Franklin | 2 hr |
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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.