Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 11, 2003, 3:25 PM EDT for Columbia County, New York. It was in force for 4 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
- Aug 11, 2003, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2003, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Columbia County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 544 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KALY 111926 FFWALY NYC021-112330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 325 PM EDT MON AUG 11 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... COLUMBIA COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 322 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED TORRENTIAL RAIN IN COLUMBIA COUNTY. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...ANCRAM...AUSTERLITZ...CHATHAM... CLAVERACK...COPAKE...HUDSON...KINDERHOOK...LIVINGSTON...PHILMONT... STOTTVILLE AND VALATIE 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 4211 7389 4201 7356 4240 7342 4241 7371
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KALY 112332 FFSALY VTC025-NYC021-120000- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 730 PM EDT MON AUG 11 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS FOR COLUMBIA COUNTY NEW YORK AND WINDHAM COUNTY VERMONT HAVE EXPIRED... RAIN AND FLOODING THAT OCCURRED THIS AFTERNOON HAVE DIMINISHED. HOWEVER...MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH TONIGHT. SOME OF THE RAINFALL COULD BE VERY HEAVY. A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN AFFECT. REMEMBER...TO NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ACROSS ANY ROAD THAT IS FLOODED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 9:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 4 hr |
| Aug 10, 9:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 2 hr |
| Aug 11, 1:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Albany, Greene | 5 hr |
| Aug 11, 1:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Ulster | 5 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003
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.