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Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Albany, NY

October 29, 20034 counties in New York; Berkshire County, Massachusetts; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Oct 29, 2003, 8:55 AM EST for 4 counties in New York; Berkshire County, Massachusetts; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. 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 29, 2003, 8:55 AM EST (13:55 UTC)
Expired: Oct 29, 2003, 3:00 PM EST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Berkshire County, MA, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Greene County, NY, Ulster County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:57 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 70 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 504 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 424 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 291358
FFWALY
CTC005-MAC003-NYC021-027-039-111-292000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
855 AM EST WED OCT 29 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  COLUMBIA COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK
  DUTCHESS COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK
  GREENE COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK
  ULSTER COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK
  LITCHFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT
  BERKSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS

* UNTIL 300 PM EST

* AT 851 AM EST...STREAMS NEAR BANK FULL WERE REPORTED IN 
COLUMBIA...GREENE...ULSTER...DUTCHESS...BERKSHIRE AND LITCHFIELD 
COUNTIES. HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH NOON TODAY.

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.


$$

LAT...LON 4274 7283 4160 7298 4156 7447 4235 7448
          4241 7378

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 29, 9:28 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Albany, Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie	4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 2003 Flash Flood Warnings in Massachusetts, 2003 Flash Flood Warnings in Connecticut, 2003 Every 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.