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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Albany, NY

June 23, 2001Hamilton County, Herkimer County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 23, 2001, 12:10 AM EDT for Hamilton County, Herkimer County, New York. 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 23, 2001, 12:10 AM EDT (04:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2001, 6:00 AM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 119 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 290 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 906 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KALY 230410
FFWALY
NYC041-043-231000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1210 AM EDT SAT JUN 23 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HERKIMER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK
  HAMILTON COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 600 AM EDT

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...WILL 
CONTINUE TO MOVE FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST ACROSS HERKIMER AND 
HAMILTON COUNTIES OVERNIGHT. ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY 
FALLEN ACROSS MUCH OF THE TWO COUNTIES AND AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO 
THREE INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2.5 
INCHES IN 3 HOURS OR 3 INCHES IN 6 HOURS WILL BE ENOUGH TO PRODUCE 
FLASH FLOODING. SOME OF THE CREEKS AND STREAMS WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED 
INCLUDE INDIAN BROOK...BOTTLE BROOK...WHEELER CREEK...LIMEKILN 
CREEK...THE SOUTH BRANCH OF THE MOOSE RIVER...BENEDICT 
CREEK...SUMNER STREAM...FERGUSON CREEK...STEELE CREEK...MOYER 
CREEK...NORTH WINFIELD CREEK AND FULMER CREEK. IN ADDITION 
SIGNIFICANT WITHIN BANK RISES CAN BE EXPECTED ON THE WEST CANADA 
CREEK AND THE MOHAWK RIVER. 

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT IS
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID
CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINSL.

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 5:55 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	6 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.