Alert archive / Connecticut / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 11, 2007, 8:05 PM EDT for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 2007, 8:05 PM EDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2007, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 252 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 813 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KALY 120008 FFWALY CTC005-120300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 805 PM EDT WED JUL 11 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LITCHFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT... * UNTIL 1100 PM EDT * AT 801 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WARNED AREA. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FALLS VILLAGE AND CANAAN RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL ACROSS NORTHWEST LITCHFIELD COUNTY IN THE PAST FEW HOURS. HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE SAME AREAS AND PRODUCE EXCESSIVE RUNOFF. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA...WHICH WILL LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE USUALLY DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...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 4181 7350 4184 7324 4204 7321 4204 7352 $$ JPV
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KALY 120105 FFSALY FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 903 PM EDT WED JUL 11 2007 CTC005-120300- LITCHFIELD CT- 903 PM EDT WED JUL 11 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR NORTHWESTERN LITCHFIELD COUNTY... AT 902 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE HEAVY RAIN HAS TAPERED OFF TO LIGHTER SHOWERS ACROSS THE AREA...BUT RESIDUAL RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING OVER THE WARNED AREA. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE USUALLY DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 4181 7350 4184 7324 4204 7321 4204 7352 $$ JPV
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.