Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Watches in 2013
Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Albany, NY
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.
- 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
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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</html>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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 8:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Herkimer | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 9:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Herkimer | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 2:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Columbia | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 2:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Columbia | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 2:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Ulster | 51 min |
| Jul 8, 3:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Dutchess | 66 min |
| Jul 8, 6:24 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Dutchess, Ulster | 3 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.