Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this flash flood warning at Jul 12, 2004, 4:30 PM EDT for Clinton County, New York. It was in force for 2 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
- Jul 12, 2004, 4:30 PM EDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2004, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clinton County, NY
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 653 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KBTV 122030 FFWBTV NYC019-122230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 430 PM EDT MON JUL 12 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CLINTON COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 428 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORMS NEAR CLAYBURG...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PLATTSBURGH...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL BE... 9 MILES EAST OF RIVERVIEW BY 435 PM EDT 8 MILES EAST OF HAWKEYE BY 530 PM EDT 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. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 4472 7397 4446 7394 4454 7344 4484 7353 $$ SISSON
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KBTV 122139 FFSBTV NYC019-122230- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 538 PM EDT MON JUL 12 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR... CLINTON COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW YORK AT 536 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PLATTSBURGH...OR ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RIVERVIEW... MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WILL BE NEAR... MOFFITTSVILLE AT 600 PM. PEASLEEVILLE AT 620 PM. PERU AND SCHUYLER FALLS AT 630 PM. SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA. SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RAPIDLY FLOOD...POSSIBLY WASHING OUT ROADS AND FLOODING NEARBY LOW AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 4474 7349 4465 7394 4443 7390 4452 7350 $$
000 WGUS71 KBTV 122240 FFSBTV NYC019-122300- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 640 PM EDT MON JUL 12 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CLINTON COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW YORK HAS EXPIRED... AT 630 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A WEAKENING AND STATIONARY CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST CLINTON COUNTY NEAR HAWKEYE AND BLACK BROOK. NO REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON. RADAR ESTIMATED OVER 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER ELLENBURG MOUNTAIN AND JUST SOUTHWEST OF DANNEMORA. PLEASE RELAY ANY REPORTS OF FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 4475 7397 4444 7389 4449 7354 4480 7351 $$
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.