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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Albany, NY

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

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 23, 2001, 5:55 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, 5:55 AM EDT (09:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2001, 11:45 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, 9.9 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 230955
FFWALY
NYC041-043-231545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
555 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 1145 AM EDT

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL TAPER OFF FOR A BRIEF TIME EARLY THIS 
MORNING ACROSS HERKIMER AND HAMILTON COUNTIES...BEFORE MORE HEAVY 
RAIN MOVES BACK INTO THE AREA AFTER 800 AM. THE HEAVY RAINS 
OVERNIGHT HAVE CAUSED THE FULMER CREEK TO OVERFLOW ITS BANKS WITH 
FLOODING REPORTED IN MOHAWK. DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES 
OVERNIGHT WERE IN THE 1 TO 3 INCH RANGE IN MANY AREAS. 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 IN ADDITION TO FULMER CREEK...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. 
IN ADDITION SIGNIFICANT WITHIN BANK RISES CAN BE EXPECTED ON THE 
WEST CANADA CREEK AND THE MOHAWK RIVER. 
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE 
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS 
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. 
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

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
CARMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 12:10 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.