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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Albany, NY

August 3, 2026Dutchess County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 2026, 5:03 AM EDT for Dutchess 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
Aug 3, 2026, 5:03 AM EDT (09:03 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Dutchess County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:05 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 103 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 2026-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 73 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 2026-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 192 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
73 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1019 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
192 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
246 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 12:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYRensselaer27 min
Aug 3, 1:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYRensselaer50 min
Aug 3, 12:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYBennington46 min
Aug 3, 1:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYBennington43 min

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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.