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Flood Watch 7, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flood watch at Apr 16, 2011, 4:33 AM EDT for Dutchess County, Ulster County, New York. It took effect at Apr 16, 2011, 6:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 2011, 4:33 AM EDT (08:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 16, 2011, 6:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2011, 5:18 AM EDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Dutchess County, NY, Ulster County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:30 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 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 1081 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 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 Apr 16, 1:28 AM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 1:28 AM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 4:32 AM EDT | High Wind Warning | ALY | Hamilton, Herkimer | 24 hr |
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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.