Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Oct 27, 2003, 9:08 AM EST for Ulster 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
- Oct 27, 2003, 9:08 AM EST (14:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 2003, 3:15 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ulster County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:07 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 498 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 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 KALY 271412
FFWALY
NYC111-272015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
908 AM EST MON OCT 27 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
ULSTER COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK
* UNTIL 315 PM EST
* AT 907 AM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
RAIN IN ULSTER COUNTY.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...CLINTONDALE...ELLENVILLE...
HURLEY...KERHONKSON...KINGSTON...LAKE KATRINE...LINCOLN PARK...
NAPANOCH...NEW PALTZ...PHOENICIA...ROSENDALE...ROSENDALE VILLAGE...
SUNDOWN...TILLSON...WEST HURLEY...WEST SHOKAN...WOODSTOCK...
BLOOMINGTON...BOICEVILLE...FROST VALLEY...HARDENBURG...MODENA...
MOHONK LAKE...MOUNT TREMPER...OLIVEBRIDGE...OLIVEREA...
PEEKAMOOSE...RIGGSVILLE...SHANDAKEN AND ULSTER HEIGHTS
DOPPLER RADAR SHOWS THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN THE
PAST SEVERAL HOURS OVER NORTHERN PORTIONS OF ULSTER COUNTY. WITH
THE SLOW MOVING FRONT...PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH
3 PM TODAY ACROSS THE COUNTY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS IN
EXCESS OF 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE.
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 4208 7396 4163 7403 4160 7432 4202 7473
4216 7449The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 11:37 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Greene | 4 hr |
| Oct 27, 3:29 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Greene, Ulster | 8 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.