Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 1986
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1986, 1:36 PM EDT for Ulster County, New York. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1986, 1:36 PM EDT (17:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1986, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ulster 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
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 672 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 745 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KALB 161738 TORALB NYC111-161830- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 136 PM EDT MON JUN 16 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NEW YORK...ULSTER A POSSIBLE TORNADO HIT THE WOODBOURNE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY IN SULLIVAN COUNTY AT 115 PM EDT. THERE WAS NO REPORT OF COMFIRMED INJURIES..BUT EXTENSIVE DAMAGE WAS DONE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOURS..AND WILL TRACK ACROSS ULSTER COUNTY. THE @ATCH WILL BE JUST NORTH OF ELLENVILLE AND THE MINNNEWASKA PARK..AND NORTH OF NEW PALTZ. IF YOU/RE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO..MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND. OTHERWISE..GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES AND GO TO A REINFORCED BUILDING..OR AS A LAST RESORT..A DITCH OR CULVERT.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Jun 16, 8:07 AM EDT, 5 hours 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 805 PM EDT MON JUN 16 1986 THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE SACANDAGA LAKE ABOUT 830 THIS MORNING. EARLY MORNING BOATERS SHOULD GET TO SHORE AT THE FIRST SIGN OF THREATENING WEATHER. THE STORM WILL PACK FAIRLY HEAVY RAINS..AND THERE MAY BE SQUALLY WINDS TOO. AT 800 AM..SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LINED FROM JUST WEST OF THE GREAT SACANDAGA TO NEAR CANAJOHARIE IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THE MOST VIGOROUS STORM OVER CANAJOHARIE..MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL SWEEP ACROSS FULTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES BY 900 AM..AND DRIVERS HEADING WEST ON THE THRUWAY WILL HAVE TO BE READY TO PULL OVER IF RAINS GET TOO BAD. . AT 900 AM..SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH FROM CENTRAL SARATOGA COUNTY TO NEAR AMSTERDAM.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 9:04 AM EDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 905 AM EDT MON JUN 16 1986 A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS OVER SHARON SPRINGS IN THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SCHOHAR
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 10:11 AM EDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 1010 AM EDT MON JUN 16 1986 A VIGOUROUS THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER ROUTE 23 IN GREENE COUNTY..NEAR ASHLAND AT MID-MORNING. AND THE STORM WILL CAUSE DOWNPOURS OF RAIN ..LOTS OF LIGHTNING..AND GUSTY WINDS AS IT TRACKS TO THE EAST. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL CROSS THE THRUWAY..NEAR COXSACKIE..A LITTLE AFTER 1030 AM..AND REACH THE VALATIE-CHATHAM AREA IN COLUMBIA COUNTY ABOUT 11 AM. THE STORM WAS PART OF A LONG LINE OF SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDER- STORMS FROM RUTLAND COUNTY IN VERMONT..TO JUST WEST OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT..AND THROUGH THE SCHOHARIE VALLEY INTO DELAWARE COUNTY. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT ALMOST 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE ACTIVE IN SOUTHERN VERMONT AND MUCH OF THE HUDSON VALLEY THROUGH THE MID-MORNING. . GET TO A SAFE SHELTER IF THE WEATHER GETS THREATENING IN YOUR AREA. AGAIN..ALONG WITH HEAVY RAINS..THERE/LL BE QUITE A BIT OF LIGHTNING WHICH IS ALWAYS DANGEROUS.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 11:08 AM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 1105 AM EDT MON JUN 16 1986 A VERY POTENT THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER NORTHERN RENSSELAER COUNTY NEAR THE TOMHANNOCK RESERVOIR AT 1100 AM THIS MORNING. WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED HEAVY RAINS IN THE STORM AND AS IT TRACKS EAST..SMALL HAIL IS ALSO LIKELY. THE STORM WILL PASS OVER HOOSICK FALLS ABOUT 1130 AM..THEN WILL MOVE INTO BENNINGTON COUNTY OF VERMONT. BRIEF AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL ALSO WHIP THE REGION..AND THERE/LL BE QUITE A BIT OF LIGHTNING. GET TO A SHELTER IF YOUR WEATHER GETS THREATENING. THE STORM WAS PART OF A LINE OF FAIRLY NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS FROM CENTRAL VERMONT INTO THE UPPER HUDSON VALLEY. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AND HOUR..AND WILL BE ACTIVE IN SOUTHERN VERMONT..EAST OF THE HUDON RIVER..AND IN BERKSHIRE COUNTY OF MASSACHUSETTS THROUGH THE LATE MORNING. DURING THE MID-MORNING..A THUNDERSTORM DUMPED ABOUT ONE AN6D ONE QUARTER INCHES OF RAIN AT STILLWATER IN SARATOGA COUNTY.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 12:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 1230 PM EDT MON JUN 16 1986 A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WAS OVER ULSTER COUNTY SHORTLY AFTER THE NOON HOUR TODAY. THE STORMS WERE FROM ROUTE 28 NEAR PHOENICIA TO JUST WEST OF THE ROUNDOUT RESEVOIR..AND TO NEAR LIBERTY IN SULLIVAN COUNTY. THE STORMS WILL MOVE EAST AT CLOSE TO 30 MILES AND HOUR..CROSSING THE ASHOKAN RESERVOIR..AND REACHING THE HUDSON RIVER AT 130 PM. AT THAT TIME..STORMS WILL BE ALONG THE THRUWAY FROM SAUGERTIES TO NEW PALTZ. DOWNPOURS OF RAIN WILL SEVERELY HAMPER VISIBILITY FOR DRIVERS. AND WITH FREQUENT LIGHTNING..THERE/LL BE BRIEF GUSTY WINDS. LIGHTNING IS VERY DANGEROUS..SO TAKE SHELTER IN A BUILDING. AND DON/T USE APPLIANCES OR THE PHONE WHILE THE STORM/S GOING ON. IF YOU/RE CAUGHT OUTDOORS..STAY AWAY FROM METAL OBJECTS..OR ISOLATED TALL STRUCTURES. IF YOU/RE BOATING..GET TO SHORE AT THiE FIRST SIGN OF STORMY OR THREATENING WEATHER. SUDDEN SQUALLS COULD EASILY CAPSIZE SMALLER BOATS. AND LIGHTNING IS ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS WHEN YOU/RE OUT ON THE WATER.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 1:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Ulster | 56 min |
| Jun 16, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Washington | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Washington | 67 min |
| Jun 16, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Hamilton, Herkimer | 45 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.