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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Albany, NY

May 23, 201415 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Berkshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood watch at May 23, 2014, 12:38 PM EDT for 15 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2014, 12:38 PM EDT (16:38 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2014, 9:17 PM EDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Flood severity: None

Counties Berkshire County, MA, 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), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:40 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 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 231 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: 25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 487 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 23, 10:28 AM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 10:28 AM EDT, 2 hours 10 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
May 22, 8:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Herkimer	40 min
May 22, 9:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schoharie	41 min
May 22, 9:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Herkimer	51 min
May 23, 1:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	39 min
May 23, 1:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Hamilton, Saratoga, Warren, Washington	6 hr
May 23, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	47 min
May 23, 2:54 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Hamilton, Saratoga, Warren	3 hr
May 23, 3:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Dutchess, Ulster	3 hr
May 23, 4:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	24 min
May 23, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	45 min
May 23, 3:57 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Bennington, Windham	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in New York, 2014 Flash Flood Watches in Vermont, 2014 Flash Flood Watches in Massachusetts, 2014 Every flash flood watch in 2014

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.