Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1988, 9:02 PM EDT for Albany County, Schenectady County, New York. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report 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
- Jul 16, 1988, 9:02 PM EDT (01:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1988, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Albany County, NY, Schenectady 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 9:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Schenectady, 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 15 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
- 2193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1732 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 6.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KALB 170102
SVRALB
NYC001-093-170200-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
902 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK
ALBANY...SCHENECTADY
AT 9PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
SCHENECTADY. IT WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST... WILL WILL PASS NEAR
NISKAYUNA...AND INMTO COLONIE TOWNSHIP BY 920 PM...AND PASS
NEAR THE CITY OF ALBANY.
THE STORMS IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM...GO TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIN AND LIGHTNING.
THIS STORM ALSO CONTAINED FREQUENT LIGHTNING. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING
CAN BE A KILLER.
SNYDERWhat 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, Jul 16, 6:39 PM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 630 PM EDT THU JUL 14 1988 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE HEADING TOWARD THE CATSKILLS... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR DELAWARE... SULLIVAN AND ORANGE COUNTIES. A WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT IN THE SUSQUEHANNA REGION AND WESTERN MOHAWK VALLEY. THE WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT UNTIL 10PM. AT 630 WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR WALTON DELAWARE COUNTY TO SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY PENNSYVANNIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAD VERY HEAVY RAIN AND INTENSE LIGHTNING. THE SUNY LIGHTING DETECTION SYSTEM SHOWS THERE HAVE BEEN OVER 1500 CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES FROM THESE STORMS IN THE PAST HOUR. THESE STORMS WERE MOVI}NG EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL REACH SULLIVAN COUNTY BY 730 PM. SNYDER
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 7:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 730 PM EDT THU JUL 14 1988 ...A THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN THE EASTERN MOHAWK VALLEY NEAR THE TWON OF GLENN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND MAY HAVE HAIL IT IS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL PASS NEAR AMSTERDAM A LITTLE BEFORE 8PM. SNYDER SNYDER
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 7:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 755 PM EDT SAT JUL 17 1988 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE ON THE INCREASE ACROSS EASTERN NEW YORK EARLY THIS EVENING... AT 745 PM...A COUPLE OF GOOD STORMS WERE OVER SCHENECTADY COUNTY AND HEADING EAST AT A FAST RATE OF ABOUT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THAT/LL TAKE THEM ACROSS..OR A LITTLE NORTH..OF COHOES AND TROY BY 830 PM...AND TO ABOUT PETERSBURGH NEAR THE VERMONT BORDER AT 900 PM. ALONG WITH BRIEF DOWNPOURS THAT MAY DROP AS MUCH AS ONE OR ONE AND HALF INCHES OF RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 50 MILES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE. OTHER STORMS WERE OVER NORTNERN SCHOHARIE COUNTY FROM COBLSESKILL TO NEAR BERNE IN ALBANY COUNTY. THEY/LL SWEEP ACROSS CENTRAL ALBANY COUNTY AND INTO SOUTHERN RENSSELAER COUNTY NEAR AVERILL PARK AND NASSAU AT 900 PM. IN THE ADIRONDACKS...AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF SPECULATOR IN HAMILTON COUNTY MAY CAUSE SQUALLY WINDS AS IT PASSES OVER THE NORTH PART OF THE SACANDAGA RESERVOIR AT 830 THIS EVENING. BOATERS SHOULD GET TO SHORE AT THE FIRST SIGN OF THE STORM.
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 8:20 PM EDT, 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 819 PM EDT SAT JUL 17 1988 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE ERUPTING IN THE MOHAWK VALLEY... THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL WERE NEAR MARIAVILLE SCHENECTADY COUNTY AND JUST EAST OF COBLESKILL. THIE FIRST STROM WILL MOVE ACROSS SCHENECTADY COUTN AND CROSS THE CITY AND MOVE TO NISKAYUNA. MORE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACORSS NORTGERN OTSEGO COUNTY THEY WERE NEAR ROSEBOOM...CANADARAGO LAKE...AND PLAINFIELD. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THEY WERE RAPIDLY INTENSIFING AND WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTH SCHOHARIE COUNTY PASSING NEAR MIDDLEBURG. SNYDER IN THE ADIRONDACKS...AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF SPECULATOR IN HAMILTON COUNTY MAY CAUSE SQUALLY WINDS AS IT PASSES OVER THE NORTH PART OF THE SACANDAGA RESERVOIR AT 830 THIS EVENING. BOATERS SHOULD GET TO SHORE AT THE FIRST SIGN OF THE STORM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 8:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Orange | 62 min |
| Jul 16, 9:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Montgomery | 65 min |
| Jul 16, 9:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Saratoga | 58 min |
| Jul 16, 10:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Warren | 56 min |
| Jul 16, 10:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Washington | 37 min |
| Jul 17, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Sullivan, Ulster | 84 min |
| Jul 17, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Greene | 63 min |
| Jul 17, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Ulster | 59 min |
| Jul 17, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia | 58 min |
| Jul 17, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 81 min |
| Jul 17, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Orange | 84 min |
| Jul 17, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 65 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.