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Flash Flood Watch 6, NWS Albany, NY

July 23, 201310 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood watch at Jul 23, 2013, 1:07 AM EDT for 10 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 23, 2013, 1:07 AM EDT (05:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2013, 7:31 PM EDT
In force: 18 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Flood severity: None

Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Greene County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 16 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1090 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1008 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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 22, 11:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 11:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 22, 4:50 PM EDT, 8 hours 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 8:40 PM EDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 23, 12:22 AM EDT, 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 23, 12:48 AM EDT, 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 23, 1:05 AM EDT, 2 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 8:24 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Ulster	3 hr
Jul 22, 8:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Albany	50 min
Jul 22, 10:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Ulster	6 hr
Jul 23, 1:42 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady and 1 more	6 hr
Jul 23, 2:47 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Montgomery, Schoharie	6 hr
Jul 23, 3:31 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess, Ulster	6 hr
Jul 23, 1:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Ulster	4 hr
Jul 23, 2:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	23 min
Jul 23, 2:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	29 min
Jul 23, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	63 min
Jul 23, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	62 min
Jul 23, 5:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Columbia, Greene	3 hr
Jul 23, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		25 min
Jul 23, 3:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	50 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in New York, 2013 Flash Flood Watches in Vermont, 2013 Flash Flood Watches in Connecticut, 2013 Every 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.