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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Albany, NY

July 8, 201315 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood watch at Jul 8, 2013, 4:16 AM EDT for 15 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Jul 8, 2013, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 8, 2013, 4:16 AM EDT (08:16 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 8, 2013, 11:00 AM EDT
Expired
Jul 8, 2013, 7:06 PM EDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Flood severity
None

Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, 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), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:16 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 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 11 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, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 2013-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2162 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, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 2013-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2162 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
909 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood watch went out at Jul 8, 2:19 AM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 2:19 AM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 7, 8:59 PM EDT, 7 hours 17 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
859 PM EDT SUN JUL 7 2013

CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066-
082>084-VTZ013>015-081100-
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-
859 PM EDT SUN JUL 7 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWESTERN
CONNECTICUT...WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK AND
SOUTHERN VERMONT.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA THIS
EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE FROM WEST-SOUTHWEST TO EAST-
NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MPH. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL
PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY LEAD TO ISOLATED FLASH
FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY ON MONDAY...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON.
WHILE THESE AGAIN ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE...THEY COULD
CONTAIN HEAVY RAINFALL. THIS RAINFALL COULD LEAD TO PONDING OF
WATER OR POSSIBLY EVEN LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD
WATCH MIGHT BE ISSUED TONIGHT FOR MONDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...DOWNED
TREES AND FLASH FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VIA THE
SEVERE WEATHER REPORT FORM ON THE INTERNET OR BY TELEPHONE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 8:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYHerkimer6 hr
Jul 7, 9:19 PM EDTFlash Flood Warning EmergencyALYHerkimer4 hr
Jul 8, 2:12 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryALYColumbia3 hr
Jul 8, 2:25 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYColumbia4 hr
Jul 8, 2:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYUlster51 min
Jul 8, 3:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYDutchess66 min
Jul 8, 6:24 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryALYDutchess, Ulster3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in New York, 2013Flash Flood Watches in Vermont, 2013Flash Flood Watches in Connecticut, 2013Every flash flood watch in 2013

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.