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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Albany, NY

May 28, 2002Bennington County, Vermont; Berkshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 2002, 2:24 PM EDT for Bennington County, Vermont; 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 2002, 2:24 PM EDT (18:24 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2002, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Berkshire County, MA, Bennington County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:28 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 56 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: 249 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 899 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KALY 281824
FFWALY
MAC003-VTC003-290015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
223 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BENNINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN VERMONT
  NORTHERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 217 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN IN NORTHERN BERKSHIRE AND SOUTHERN BENNINGTON COUNTIES.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...ADAMS...CHESHIRE...DALTON...
  FLORIDA...HANCOCK...NEW ASHFORD...NORTH ADAMS...PITTSFIELD...
  SAVOY...WILLIAMSTOWN...BENNINGTON...HEARTWELLVILLE...NORTH
  BENNINGTON...NORTH POWNAL...POWNAL...READSBORO...STAMFORD AND
  WOODFORD STATE PARK

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.

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.

$$

LAT...LON 4302 7300 4276 7294 4236 7307 4237 7338
          4297 7327

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 2:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Berkshire	61 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Vermont, 2002 Flash Flood Warnings in Massachusetts, 2002 Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.