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Flood Watch 6, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flood watch at Apr 11, 2011, 12:26 PM EDT for 7 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont. It took effect at Apr 11, 2011, 6:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 19 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 11, 2011, 12:26 PM EDT (16:26 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 11, 2011, 6:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 12, 2011, 1:17 PM EDT
- In force
- 19 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Fulton County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:32 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 294 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.9
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 Apr 11, 11:08 AM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 11, 11:08 AM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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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.