Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2005, 5:20 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
- Jun 13, 2005, 5:20 PM EDT (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2005, 8:15 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), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:00 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Warrensburg, NY | 3 PLUS INCHES OF RAIN - SERIOUS PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS |
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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 845 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KALY 132124 FFWALY NYC113-140015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 520 PM EDT MON JUN 13 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WARREN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK * UNTIL 815 PM EDT * AT 519 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. RADAR ESTIMATED THAT UP TO THREE AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN AND MORE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO THE AREA. * THE GREATEST THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING IS BETWEEN WARRENSBURG AND LAKE GEORGE VILLAGE. FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES... DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM... EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 4342 7383 4339 7366 4353 7367 4358 7390 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KALY 132237 FFSALY FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 633 PM EDT MON JUN 13 2005 NYC113-140015- WARREN NY- 633 PM EDT MON JUN 13 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 815 PM EDT FOR CENTRAL WARREN COUNTY... AT 630 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL IN SOUTHERN WARREN COUNTY OF OVER 4 INCHES WITH OBSERVED RAINFALL OVER 3 INCHES. THE RAIN HAS SUBSIDED...BUT THE THREAT OF A FEW MORE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES. THE GREATEST THREAT OF FLOODING IS FROM WARRENSBURG TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAKE GEORGE VILLAGE. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN ALBANY. LAT...LON 4342 7383 4339 7366 4353 7367 4358 7390 $$
000
WGUS71 KALY 132339
FFSALY
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
734 PM EDT MON JUN 13 2005
NYC113-140015-
WARREN NY-
734 PM EDT MON JUN 13 2005
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 815 PM EDT FOR WARREN
COUNTY...
THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN WARREN COUNTY DIMINISHED EARLIER THIS
EVENING WHERE RAINFALL OF 3 TO 4 INCHES FELL. FLOODING IN THESE
AREAS SHOULD BE DIMINISHING. BETWEEN 630 PM AND 730 PM AND NEW BAND
OF THUNDERSTORMS FORMED FURTHER NORTH ALONG A LINE FROM WEVERTOWN TO
DARROWSVILLE TO NORTH BOLTON. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL IN
THESE AREAS AT TWO AND A HALF TO THREE INCHES.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
CHESTERTOWN...WARRENSBURG...NORTH CREEK...JOHNSBURG AND BOLTON
LANDING.
LAT...LON 4336 7385 4328 7377 4332 7363 4372 7362
4371 7422
$$Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 2005Every flash flood warning in 2005
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.