Alert archive / New York / Flood Watches in 2018
Flood Watch 7, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flood watch at Nov 24, 2018, 2:53 AM EST for 7 counties in New York; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Nov 24, 2018, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 24, 2018, 2:53 AM EST (07:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 24, 2018, 10:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Nov 25, 2018, 2:48 AM EST
- In force
- 5 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, Schoharie County, NY, Ulster County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:56 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 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1023 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Flood Watches in New York, 2018Flood Watches in Connecticut, 2018Every flood watch in 2018
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.