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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Albany, NY

September 18, 2004Schoharie County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Sep 18, 2004, 10:34 AM EDT for Schoharie County, New York. It was in force for 116 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Sep 18, 2004, 10:34 AM EDT (14:34 UTC)
Expired
Sep 18, 2004, 12:30 PM EDT
In force
116 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Schoharie County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:37 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 18, 10:47 AM EDTFLASH FLOODNorth Blenheim, NYDARLING HOLLOW CREEK, BETTY BROOK, WESTKILL FLOODING. WATER FROM SCHOHARIE CREEK NOW ON RT 30 NR BLENHEIM

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 232 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2004-09-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1385 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2004-09-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 226 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1385 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
550 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
226 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
206 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.3
Supercell composite
5.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KALY 181433
FFWALY
NYC095-181630-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1034 AM EDT SAT SEP 18 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS CONTINUED THE

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SCHOHARIE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK

* UNTIL 1230 PM EDT

* AT 1019 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN STILL FALLING OVER THE EASTERN
  HALF OF THE COUNTY.  THE HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE EAST OF THE COUNTY
  ABOUT 1130 AM BUT RESIDUAL RUNOFF WILL PERSIST FOR A WHILE
  AFTER THAT.    

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

LAT...LON 4252 7471 4236 7443 4236 7427 4268 7416
      4281 7467 4261 7462

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 18, 12:25 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYGreene6 hr
Sep 18, 1:26 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYAlbany, Columbia, Rensselaer6 hr
Sep 18, 1:53 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYUlster6 hr
Sep 18, 4:42 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYSchoharie6 hr
Sep 18, 6:15 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYGreene4 hr
Sep 18, 6:38 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYDutchess6 hr
Sep 18, 7:10 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYAlbany, Columbia, Rensselaer6 hr
Sep 18, 7:45 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYUlster6 hr
Sep 18, 10:15 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYGreene4 hr

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.