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Areal Flood Advisory 21, NWS Albany, NY

May 16, 2011Greene County, Ulster County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this areal flood advisory at May 16, 2011, 12:52 PM EDT for Greene County, Ulster County, New York. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 16, 2011, 12:52 PM EDT (16:52 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 2011, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon

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 16:55 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, 4.9 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 2011-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 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 2011-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 174 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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-166 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
421 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
234 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 11:26 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryALYAlbany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Washington3 hr
May 16, 12:41 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryALYSaratoga, Warren, Washington3 hr
May 16, 3:33 PM EDTFlood WatchALYColumbia, Dutchess, Greene, Schoharie, Ulster61 hr
May 16, 3:47 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryALYSaratoga, Warren, Washington3 hr

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.