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Flood Watch 14, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flood watch at Aug 26, 2011, 4:47 AM EDT for 15 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Aug 27, 2011, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 27 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 2011, 4:47 AM EDT (08:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 27, 2011, 8:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2011, 10:42 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Berkshire County, MA, Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:52 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1072 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
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 Aug 26, 3:27 AM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 3:27 AM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 5:21 AM EDT | Tropical Storm Watch | ALY | Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton and 9 more | 36 hr |
| Aug 26, 5:43 PM EDT | Tropical Storm Warning | ALY | Dutchess, Ulster | 53 hr |
Nearby
Flood Watches in New York, 2011Flood Watches in Vermont, 2011Flood Watches in Massachusetts, 2011Every flood watch in 2011
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.