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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Albany, NY

November 28, 2004Windham County, Vermont

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Nov 28, 2004, 12:58 PM EST for Windham County, Vermont. 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Nov 28, 2004, 12:58 PM EST (17:58 UTC)
Expired
Nov 28, 2004, 6:45 PM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Windham County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:03 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 94 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 2004-11-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2004-11-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 360 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
360 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
447 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 281758
FFWALY
VTC025-282345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1258 PM EST SUN NOV 28 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WINDHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHERN VERMONT
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...TOWNSHEND...STRATTON...LONDONDERRY...
  BRATTLEBORO

* UNTIL 645 PM EST

* AT 1246 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED  
  VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING ACROSS WINDHAM COUNTY WITH AMOUNTS OF  
  HALF AN INCH TO AN INCH HAVING ALREADY FALLEN. THE RAIN WAS
  CONTINUING TO ADVANCE NORTH AND EAST.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  WILMINGTON...WEST WARDSBORO...VERNON...SAXTONS RIVER...PUTNEY AND
  NEWFANE.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE 
WARNED AREA.

FLOODING IS EXPECTED THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON ALONG SECTIONS OF THE
SPRAGUE BROOK...BORDEN BROOK...KEETS BROOK...ROARING BROOK...BRANCH
BROOK...ELLIS BROOK...BILL BROOK...HARRISVILLE BROOK...HINESBURG
BROOK...WAITE BROOK...BEMIS BROOK...BAKER BROOK AND WHETSTONE BROOK. 
IN ADDITION SECTIONS OF OTHER STREAMS AND CREEKS ESPECIALLY THOSE IN 
HILLY TERRAIN WILL LIKELY EXPERIENCE FLOODING.

IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE
POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS
FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY.

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.

TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
ALBANY.

LAT...LON 4276 7291 4275 7248 4285 7257 4305 7246
      4324 7248 4322 7268 4326 7283 4312 7286
      4310 7299 4296 7300 4294 7293

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 28, 1:34 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningALYBennington6 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Vermont, 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.