Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at May 13, 2004, 2:03 PM EDT for Schoharie County, New York. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2004, 2:03 PM EDT (18:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2004, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Schoharie County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:05 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -176 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1092 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 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 131803
FFWALY
NYC095-132100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
203 PM EDT THU MAY 13 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SCHOHARIE COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF COBLESKILL
* UNTIL 500 PM EDT
* AT 154 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR NORTH BLENHEIM...WHICH WAS
NEARLY STATIONARY.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
SUMMIT...SHARON SPRINGS...SCHOHARIE...RICHMONDVILLE...
MIDDLEBURGH...LIVINGSTONVILLE...JEFFERSON...GILBOA...CENTRAL BRIDGE
AND BREAKABEEN.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.
FLOODING IS EXPECTED ON THE MANOR KILL...WEST KILL...PANTHER
CREEK...FOX CREEK...MINE KILL AS WELL AS AREAS SOUTH OF GILBOA
RESERVOIR AND EAST OF THE SCHOHARIE CREEK.
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.
LAT...LON 4236 7445 4245 7466 4254 7467 4262 7461
4280 7462 4270 7418 4252 7425 4236 7426
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 12:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Warren | 3 hr |
| May 13, 1:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Hamilton | 3 hr |
| May 13, 1:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Warren, Washington | 26 min |
| May 13, 2:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Ulster | 51 min |
| May 13, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Warren, Washington | 64 min |
| May 13, 2:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Ulster | 3 hr |
| May 13, 2:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Greene | 3 hr |
| May 13, 3:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Montgomery | 3 hr |
| May 13, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 43 min |
| May 13, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia | 46 min |
| May 13, 3:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Warren | 3 hr |
| May 13, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Herkimer, Montgomery | 38 min |
| May 13, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Warren, Washington | 37 min |
| May 13, 4:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Washington | 3 hr |
| May 13, 6:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Ulster | 3 hr |
| May 13, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Ulster | 47 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004
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.