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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Albany, NY

June 10, 2005Saratoga County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 2005, 3:47 PM EDT for Saratoga 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 10, 2005, 3:47 PM EDT (19:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2005, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Saratoga County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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 10, 3:57 PM EDT	FLASH FLOOD	Round Lake, NY	SEVERAL ROADS FLOODED/CLOSED. REPORT OF OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN.

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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 25 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 769 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 667 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KALY 101949
FFWALY
NYC091-102245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
347 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SARATOGA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 342 PM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED RAPIDLY RISING   
  WATER FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WARNED AREA.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ROUND   
LAKE...MECHANICVILLE...BURNT HILLS...CLIFTON PARK AND BALLSTON SPA.

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. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.

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 4303 7362 4298 7414 4286 7391 4274 7380
      4281 7352

$$

SND

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 2:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga	55 min
Jun 10, 4:35 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Warren, Washington	3 hr

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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.