Alert archive / New York / Flood Watches in 2011
Flood Watch 17, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flood watch at Sep 28, 2011, 9:16 AM EDT for 8 counties in New York. It was in force for 35 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 28, 2011, 9:16 AM EDT (13:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 2011, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Albany County, NY, Greene County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Ulster County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:16 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 12:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 663 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Sep 28, 7:19 AM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 28, 7:19 AM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 28, 3:53 AM EDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 353 AM EDT WED SEP 28 2011 CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066- 082>084-VTZ013>015-291100- NORTHERN LITCHFIELD-SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD-NORTHERN BERKSHIRE- SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE-NORTHERN HERKIMER-HAMILTON-SOUTHERN HERKIMER- SOUTHERN FULTON-MONTGOMERY-NORTHERN SARATOGA-NORTHERN WARREN- NORTHERN WASHINGTON-SCHOHARIE-WESTERN SCHENECTADY- EASTERN SCHENECTADY-SOUTHERN SARATOGA-WESTERN ALBANY-EASTERN ALBANY- WESTERN RENSSELAER-EASTERN RENSSELAER-WESTERN GREENE-EASTERN GREENE- WESTERN COLUMBIA-EASTERN COLUMBIA-WESTERN ULSTER-EASTERN ULSTER- WESTERN DUTCHESS-EASTERN DUTCHESS-NORTHERN FULTON-SOUTHEAST WARREN- SOUTHERN WASHINGTON-BENNINGTON-WESTERN WINDHAM-EASTERN WINDHAM- 353 AM EDT WED SEP 28 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT...WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN VERMONT. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE WILL SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED NON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS COULD OCCUR WITHIN ANY THUNDERSTORMS...WHICH COULD LEAD TO MINOR FLOODING IN POOR DRAINAGE AND URBAN AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THERE WILL NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED NON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY AND THURSDAY EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH COULD LEAD TO MINOR FLOODING IN LOW LYING...POOR DRAINAGE AND URBAN AREAS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 28, 6:05 AM EDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 605 AM EDT WED SEP 28 2011 NYZ058-063-281215- WESTERN GREENE-WESTERN ULSTER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HUNTER...TANNERSVILLE...WINDHAM... SUNDOWN...ELLENVILLE...WOODSTOCK...WEST HURLEY...KERHONKSON... NAPANOCH...PHOENICIA 605 AM EDT WED SEP 28 2011 AN AREA OF MODERATE TO OCCASIONALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE ACROSS THE EASTERN CATSKILLS THIS MORNING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE HALF TO ONE INCH COULD FALL IN A ONE TO TWO HOUR TIME PERIOD...WHICH WILL LEAD TO PONDING OF WATER OF ROADS AND POOR DRAINAGE LOCATIONS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 8:40 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Greene, Ulster | 6 hr |
| Sep 28, 10:43 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | ALY | Ulster | 9 hr |
| Sep 28, 11:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Greene, Ulster | 3 hr |
| Sep 28, 11:42 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Albany, Schoharie | 6 hr |
| Sep 28, 6:19 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | ALY | Ulster | 5 hr |
Nearby
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.