Alert archive / New York / Areal Flood Warnings in 2016
Areal Flood Warning 3, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this areal flood warning at Feb 25, 2016, 12:13 PM EST for Albany County, Saratoga County, Schenectady County, New York. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 25, 2016, 12:13 PM EST (17:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2016, 3:15 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Albany County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:13 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 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 20 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
- 57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 862 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Feb 25, 9:26 AM EST, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 25, 9:26 AM EST, 2 hours 47 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 513 AM EST THU FEB 25 2016 CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066- 082>084-VTZ013>015-261200- 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- 513 AM EST THU FEB 25 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT...WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN VERMONT. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR ADDITIONAL WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. PLEASE REPORT ANY FLOODING OR WIND DAMAGE TO YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. HWJIV
In the hours before
Local storm report, Feb 25, 6:14 AM EST, 5 hours 59 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Feb 24, 8:11 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Dutchess | 49 min |
| Feb 24, 8:55 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Dutchess | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 9:10 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Columbia | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 9:13 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Fulton, Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie | 47 min |
| Feb 24, 9:42 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Montgomery | 6 hr |
| Feb 24, 9:43 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Columbia, Greene, Ulster | 47 min |
| Feb 24, 9:57 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Albany, Greene, Schenectady, Schoharie, Ulster | 6 hr |
| Feb 24, 10:07 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 24, 10:28 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Albany, Columbia, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Warren and 1 more | 47 min |
| Feb 24, 10:58 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | ALY | Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 24, 11:05 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Ulster | 25 min |
| Feb 24, 11:14 PM EST | High Wind Warning | ALY | Columbia, Rensselaer, Washington | 5 hr |
| Feb 24, 11:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Ulster | 38 min |
| Feb 24, 11:24 PM EST | River Flood Warning | ALY | Ulster | 14 hr |
| Feb 24, 11:56 PM EST | River Flood Warning | ALY | Montgomery | 14 hr |
| Feb 24, 11:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia, Dutchess, Rensselaer | 63 min |
| Feb 25, 2:22 AM EST | River Flood Warning | ALY | Ulster | 13 hr |
| Feb 25, 2:25 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Oneida | 65 min |
| Feb 25, 2:33 AM EST | River Flood Warning | ALY | Greene, Schoharie | 9 hr |
| Feb 25, 2:44 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Hamilton, Herkimer | 61 min |
| Feb 25, 3:24 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Montgomery | 66 min |
| Feb 25, 4:11 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Warren | 49 min |
| Feb 25, 4:48 AM EST | River Flood Warning | ALY | Washington | 25 hr |
| Feb 25, 12:22 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Columbia, Rensselaer | 3 hr |
| Feb 25, 1:52 PM EST | River Flood Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 19 hr |
| Feb 25, 5:47 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Herkimer | 12 hr |
| Feb 25, 6:01 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Herkimer | 12 hr |
| Feb 24, 11:12 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | ALY | Bennington, Windham | 6 hr |
| Feb 25, 1:03 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Windham | 42 min |
| Feb 25, 4:24 AM EST | River Flood Warning | ALY | Windham | 16 hr |
Nearby
Areal Flood Warnings in New York, 2016Every areal flood warning in 2016
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.