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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Albany, NY

August 7, 1986Fulton County, New York

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 1986-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 1986-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 3:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYSaratoga, Washington62 min
Aug 7, 4:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHamilton65 min
Aug 7, 4:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWashington68 min
Aug 7, 5:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWarren73 min
Aug 7, 6:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYRensselaer, Washington44 min
Aug 7, 7:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYSaratoga, Washington57 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.