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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Albany, NY

August 5, 20034 counties in New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 2003, 2:20 PM EDT for 4 counties in 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: Aug 5, 2003, 2:20 PM EDT (18:20 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2003, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Fulton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Schenectady County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:24 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 67 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: 478 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 624 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 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 051818
FFWALY
NYC035-043-057-093-060015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
220 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  FULTON COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK
  SOUTHEASTERN HERKIMER COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK
  MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK
  WESTERN SCHENECTADY COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 210 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN IN MONTGOMERY...WESTERN SCHENECTADY...SOUTHEASTERN HERKIMER
  AND FULTON COUNTIES.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...AMSTERDAM...BLEECKER...
  BROADALBIN...CANAJOHARIE...CAROGA LAKE...CRANBERRY CREEK...
  DOLGEVILLE...EPHRATAH...FAIRFIELD...FONDA...FORT JOHNSON...FORT
  PLAIN...FREYSBUSH...FULTONVILLE...GLEN...GLOVERSVILLE...HAGAMAN...
  HERKIMER...JOHNSTOWN...JORDANVILLE...LITTLE FALLS...MARIAVILLE...
  MAYFIELD...MIDDLEVILLE...MINAVILLE...NEWPORT...OPPENHEIM...PAINES
  HOLLOW...PALATINE BRIDGE...PERTH...ROCKWOOD...ST. JOHNSVILLE...
  STRATFORD AND TRIBES HILL

* THE FOLLOWING CREEKS ARE MOST LIKELY TO BE AFFECTED. IN
  MONTGOMERY...CAYADOTTA CREEK...FLY CREEK...BOWMAN CREEK AND 
  CANAJOHARIE CREEK. IN FULTON COUNTY...KECKS CENTER CREEK...CRUM 
  CREEK AND HALL CREEK. IN HERKIMER COUNTY...RANSOM CREEK...EAST 
  CANADA CREEK AND OTSQUAQO CREEK AN IN SCHENECTADY COUNTY...SANDSEA
  KILL...NORMANS KILL AND THE SOUTH CHUCKTANUNDA CREEK.
 
EXPECT RAPID RISES ON THESE CREEKS AND STREAMS. SATURATED GROUNDS 
AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS COULD RESULT IN MUDSLIDES OR OTHER EARTH 
MOVEMENTS.

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 4320 7420 4275 7409 4293 7487 4288 7499
          4323 7504

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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.