Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at May 13, 2004, 3:55 PM EDT for Warren County, New York. It was in force for 3 hr. 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
- May 13, 2004, 3:55 PM EDT (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2004, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Warren County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 5:32 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 1 W Bolton Landing, NY | EDGECOMB POND ROAD CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING |
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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 131955
FFWALY
NYC113-132245-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
355 PM EDT THU MAY 13 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
WARREN COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WARRENSBURG...LAKE GEORGE VILLAGE
* UNTIL 645 PM EDT
* AT 347 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE GLEN...WHICH WAS NEARLY
STATIONARY.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
CHESTERTOWN...NORTH CREEK...LAKE LUZERNE...JOHNSBURG AND BOLTON
LANDING.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 4 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.
THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION...FLOODING IS EXPECTED
ALONG RAYMOND BROOK...CENTER POND BROOK...STRAIGHT BROOK...INDIAN
BROOK...ALDER BROOK...JOHNSON BROOK...PEAKED MOUNTAIN BROOK AND
ALDOUS BROOK.
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 4370 7419 4339 7414 4329 7378 4339 7364
4368 7359 4377 7360
$$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, 2:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Schoharie | 3 hr |
| 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, 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.