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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Albany, NY

May 13, 2004Ulster County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at May 13, 2004, 2:37 PM EDT for Ulster County, New York. It was in force for 3 hr. 2 reports 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
May 13, 2004, 2:37 PM EDT (18:37 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 2004, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ulster County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:40 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
May 13, 5:20 PM EDTFLASH FLOOD4 Wnw Shandaken, NYON BIRCH CREEK IN PINE CREEK...WATER TOPPING ACADEMY STREET BRIDGE...MAIN STREET CLOSED...BIRCH CREEK ROAD WASHED OUT BETWEEN ACADEMY AND UPPER BIRCH ROADS.
May 13, 5:20 PM EDTFLASH FLOOD4 Wnw Shandaken, NYON BIRCH CREEK IN PINE HILL...WATER TOPPING ACADEMY STREET BRIDGE...MAIN STREET CLOSED...BIRCH CREEK ROAD WASHED OUT BETWEEN ACADEMY AND UPPER BIRCH ROADS.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 91 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2004-05-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 230 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2004-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KALY 131837
FFWALY
NYC111-132130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
237 PM EDT THU MAY 13 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ULSTER COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF KINGSTON

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 230 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR PHOENICIA...OR ABOUT 11    
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUNTER...WHICH WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  OLIVEBRIDGE...MOUNT TREMPER...WOODSTOCK...WEST SHOKAN...WEST
  HURLEY...TILLSON...PORT EWEN...NAPANOCH...LAKE KATRINE...KERHONKSON
  AND HURLEY.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE 
WARNED AREA.

FLOODING IS EXPECTED ALONG TRIBUTARIES OF THE ESOPUS CREEK...TROUT 
CREEK...WOODLAND CREEK...PANTHER KILL AND STONY CLOVE 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 4176 7396 4179 7396 4206 7396 4213 7438
          4214 7451 4205 7467 4174 7454

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 12:56 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYWarren3 hr
May 13, 1:07 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYHamilton3 hr
May 13, 1:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWarren, Washington26 min
May 13, 2:03 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYSchoharie3 hr
May 13, 2:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYUlster51 min
May 13, 2:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWarren, Washington64 min
May 13, 2:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYGreene3 hr
May 13, 3:12 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYMontgomery3 hr
May 13, 3:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYDutchess43 min
May 13, 3:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia46 min
May 13, 3:55 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYWarren3 hr
May 13, 4:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHerkimer, Montgomery38 min
May 13, 4:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWarren, Washington37 min
May 13, 4:46 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYWashington3 hr
May 13, 6:02 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYUlster3 hr
May 13, 6:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYUlster47 min

Nearby

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