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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Albany, NY

June 28, 2016Albany County, Schenectady County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 2016, 3:13 PM EDT for Albany 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 2016, 3:13 PM EDT (19:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2016, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Albany County, NY, Schenectady County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 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 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 26 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: 28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

523 
WGUS51 KALY 281913
FFWALY
NYC001-093-282215-
/O.NEW.KALY.FF.W.0002.160628T1913Z-160628T2215Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
313 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN ALBANY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK...
  SOUTH CENTRAL SCHENECTADY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK...

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 312 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
  ALREADY FALLEN. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES IS EXPECTED. FLASH
  FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  DUANESBURG...ALTAMONT...DELANSON...KNOX...PRINCETOWN...DUANE...
  QUAKER STREET...DUANE MANSION...EAST TOWNSHIP...KELLEYS...
  WEST TOWNSHIP...MEADOWDALE...DUANE LAKE...DUNNSVILLE AND GIFFORD.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY EMAIL AT
ALB.STORMREPORT@NOAA.GOV...
ON FACEBOOK AT WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/NWSALBANY OR TWITTER @NWSALBANY.

&&

LAT...LON 4276 7418 4279 7401 4266 7398 4263 7416
      4267 7417 4272 7417 4273 7418 4271 7419
      4271 7420 4272 7420

$$

ROK

1 follow-up statement

223 
WGUS71 KALY 282019
FFSALY

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
419 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 2016

NYC001-093-282028-
/O.CAN.KALY.FF.W.0002.000000T0000Z-160628T2215Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
ALBANY NY-SCHENECTADY NY-
419 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN ALBANY AND SOUTH CENTRAL
SCHENECTADY COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED. FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A
THREAT. 

LAT...LON 4276 7418 4279 7401 4266 7398 4263 7416
      4267 7417 4272 7417 4273 7418 4271 7419
      4271 7420 4272 7420

$$

ROK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 12:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Herkimer	43 min
Jun 28, 12:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Herkimer	58 min
Jun 28, 1:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Oneida	40 min
Jun 28, 2:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Herkimer	42 min
Jun 28, 2:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Hamilton, Warren	53 min
Jun 28, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Herkimer	62 min
Jun 28, 2:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Herkimer	3 hr
Jun 28, 2:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Albany, Schenectady	3 hr
Jun 28, 3:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton	58 min
Jun 28, 3:19 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	ALY	Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery	4 hr
Jun 28, 3:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Hamilton	3 hr
Jun 28, 4:14 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Fulton, Montgomery	3 hr
Jun 28, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Montgomery	35 min
Jun 28, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie	53 min
Jun 28, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	46 min
Jun 28, 5:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Albany, Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie	3 hr
Jun 28, 7:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	60 min

Nearby

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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.