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Areal Flood Warning 21, NWS Albany, NY

October 1, 2010Greene County, Ulster County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this areal flood warning at Oct 1, 2010, 9:24 AM EDT for Greene County, Ulster County, New York. It was in force for 12 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
Oct 1, 2010, 9:24 AM EDT (13:24 UTC)
Expired
Oct 1, 2010, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Greene County, NY, Ulster County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:24 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 175 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2010-10-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 256 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2010-10-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 679 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
256 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
500 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
679 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
682 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
7.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Oct 1, 7:42 AM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 1, 7:42 AM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 1, 6:33 AM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
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Local storm report, Oct 1, 7:24 AM EDT, 2 hours before
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Local storm report, Oct 1, 8:56 AM EDT, 28 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 30, 8:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYFulton, Hamilton, Montgomery29 min
Sep 30, 8:40 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryALYSaratoga, Warren3 hr
Sep 30, 9:28 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryALYSchoharie3 hr
Sep 30, 9:55 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningALYFulton, Montgomery, Schoharie12 hr
Sep 30, 10:07 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningALYSaratoga12 hr
Sep 30, 10:16 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningALYAlbany, Saratoga, Schenectady12 hr
Sep 30, 11:15 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningALYGreene, Rensselaer, Ulster, Washington10 hr
Oct 1, 1:09 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningALYHamilton, Warren10 hr
Oct 1, 1:19 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningALYUlster17 hr
Oct 1, 2:49 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningALYGreene, Schoharie13 hr
Oct 1, 4:06 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningALYColumbia, Dutchess10 hr
Oct 1, 4:36 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningALYHerkimer6 hr
Oct 1, 5:16 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningALYFulton, Herkimer, Montgomery24 hr
Oct 1, 6:45 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningALYHerkimer8 hr
Oct 1, 7:02 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningALYMontgomery9 hr
Oct 1, 7:16 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningALYHamilton12 hr
Oct 1, 8:44 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningALYHerkimer, Montgomery, Oneida6 hr
Oct 1, 8:53 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningALYUlster6 hr
Oct 1, 9:01 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningALYUlster9 hr
Oct 1, 9:43 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningALYSchoharie6 hr
Oct 1, 9:58 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningALYSaratoga6 hr
Oct 1, 10:12 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningALYAlbany, Schenectady12 hr
Oct 1, 10:35 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningALYWashington6 hr
Oct 1, 12:59 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningALYMontgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie8 hr
Oct 1, 2:40 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningALYSchoharie17 hr
Oct 1, 2:58 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningALYMontgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady17 hr
Oct 1, 3:56 PM EDTFrost AdvisoryALYHamilton, Herkimer15 hr
Oct 1, 1:32 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningALYBennington10 hr
Oct 1, 6:31 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningALYWindham10 hr
Oct 1, 10:56 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningALYBennington22 hr
Oct 1, 10:56 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningALYBennington5 hr
Oct 1, 11:03 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningALYBennington5 hr
Oct 1, 11:41 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningALYBennington, Windham8 hr
Oct 1, 5:41 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningALYNorthwest Hills Planning Region10 hr
Oct 1, 4:10 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningALYGreater Bridgeport Planning Region, Northwest Hills Planning Region12 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in New York, 2010Every areal flood warning in 2010

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.