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Flood Watch 4, NWS Albany, NY

February 12, 2008Columbia County, Dutchess County, Ulster County, New York; Berkshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Albany, NY issued this flood watch at Feb 12, 2008, 12:58 PM EST for Columbia County, Dutchess County, Ulster County, New York; Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Feb 13, 2008, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 20 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 12, 2008, 12:58 PM EST (17:58 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 13, 2008, 7:00 AM EST
Expired: Feb 14, 2008, 3:22 AM EST
In force: 20 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Flood severity: None

Counties Berkshire County, MA, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Ulster County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 313 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 926 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Albany, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flood watch went out at Feb 12, 12:35 PM EST, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 12, 12:35 PM EST, 23 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 12, 4:39 AM EST	Winter Storm Warning	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton and 9 more	41 hr
Feb 12, 4:39 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Ulster	23 hr

Nearby

Flood Watches in New York, 2008 Flood Watches in Massachusetts, 2008 Every flood watch in 2008

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.