Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Albany, NY

June 22, 1988Saratoga County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1988, 4:55 PM EDT for Saratoga County, New York. It was in force for 50 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 1988, 4:55 PM EDT (20:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1988, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Saratoga County, NY

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 22, 5:15 PM EDTHail 1.5Saratoga, NY
Jun 22, 5:30 PM EDTHail 1Saratoga, NY

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 46 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 12:00Z on 1988-06-22Temperature 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1988-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 216 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
216 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
221 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYFulton30 min
Jun 22, 5:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYMontgomery, Schenectady44 min
Jun 22, 5:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWashington54 min
Jun 22, 5:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYAlbany, Rensselaer67 min
Jun 22, 7:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia59 min
Jun 22, 6:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYBerkshire43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.