Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 1986, 5:32 PM EDT for Fulton County, New York. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 1986, 5:32 PM EDT (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 1986, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fulton County, NY
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 347 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
- 3598 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 12:12 PM EDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 1150 AM EDT THU AUG 7 1986 MORE RAIN IS SCHEDULED FOR ALL OF VERMONT AND NEW YORK. INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS..PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS..STRONG WINDS.. AND HAIL WILL PLAGUE EASTERN NEW YORK AND VERMONT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. TORRENTIAL RAINS FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING PROBLEMS IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND NEAR SMALL STREAMS. IF YOU LIVE IN AN AREA PRONE TO FLOODING FROM HEAVY DOWNPOURS KEEP ALERT. AND BE READY TO TAKE PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES SHOULD RISING WATER THREATEN YOU. SPECIAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING TO KEEP YOU INFORMED AS TO WHERE THE HEAVIEST THUNDERlSTORMS ARE. WILEY
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 2:05 PM EDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 200 PM EDT THU AUG 7 1986 THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING OVER THE WESTERN MOHAWK VALEY THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS, AND GUSTY WINDS WERE IN THE WESTERN MOHAWK VALLEY. THEY MAY HAVE SMALL HAIL. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS BETWEEN SYACUSE AND UTICA..NEAR LONDON IN ONEIDA COUNTY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE LOWER HUDSON VALLEY BETWEEN WAPPENGERS FALLS AND BEACON DUTCHESS COUNTY. ANOTHER THUNDERRSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS OVER BENNINGTON COUNTY VERMONT. IT WAS JUST NORTH OF THE TOWN OF BENNINGTON. NUMEROUS SHOWERS WERE OVER CONNECTICUT. SNYDER
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 3:10 PM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 310 PM EDT THU AUG 7 1986 A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER SOUTHWEST SARATOGA COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM2 WITH TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS OVER SOUTHWEST SARATOGA COUNTY. IT HAD FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND MAY HAVE STRONG GUSTY WINDS. IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE COUNTY. SNYDER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Saratoga, Washington | 62 min |
| Aug 7, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Hamilton | 65 min |
| Aug 7, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Washington | 68 min |
| Aug 7, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Warren | 73 min |
| Aug 7, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer, Washington | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Saratoga, Washington | 57 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
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.