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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Albany, NY

August 6, 1989Schoharie County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 1989, 3:50 PM EDT for Schoharie County, New York. It was in force for 55 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: Aug 6, 1989, 3:50 PM EDT (19:50 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 1989, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Schoharie 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
Aug 6, 4:40 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Schoharie, 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 51 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 134 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1080 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 72 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

Local storm report, Aug 6, 1:13 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 6, 1:34 PM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 6, 1:44 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 6, 2:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 6, 3:15 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP C
0316PM EDT SUN AUG 06 1989
COSO WLSR APTS
02199    FILE 28   OTSEGO CO SO COOPERSTOWN          AUG 08-89
TO           NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
                   (SPECIFY TYPE OF WEATHER OR EARTHQUAKE EVENT)

DETAILS CONCERNING EVENT: TREES AND WIRES DOWN

LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD): VILLAGE MORRIS/CO 10
GILBERTSVILLE
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: AUG 6 15.00 HRS
DATE AND TIME CONDITION ENDED:
EXTENT OF DAMAGE OR AREAS IN DANGER: COUNTY RTE 10 BLOCKED BY TREE
WEST MAIN MORRIS RESIDENTAL POWER LOSS
NUMBER KILLED:          NUMBER INJURED:
REMARKS: STRONG GUSTY WIND

                                                 A
AUTH PHONE #: 607 547-5351
AUTH ROBERT S BARNES                JONES         3-15 PM

Local storm report, Aug 6, 3:21 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP C
0321PM EDT SUN AUG 06 1989
CTSO WLSR APTS
01464    FILE 28   TIOGA CO SO OWEGO NY0530000       AUG 06-89
TO           NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
                   HEAVY RAIN

DETAILS CONCERNING EVENT: ROADWAY FLOODING

LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD): RT 38 VILLAGE OF NEWARK
VALLEY
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: 080689  1516 HRS
DATE AND TIME CONDITION ENDED:   080689
EXTENT OF DAMAGE OR AREAS IN DANGER: VIL/ NEWARK VALLEY STATE RT 38

NUMBER KILLED:          NUMBER INJURED:
REMARKS: RT 38 IN VILLAGE OF NEWARK VALLEY DEEP WATER - ROADWAY IS
PASSABLE BUT CAUTION REQUIRED  STATE HWY NOTIFIED

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AUTH PHONE #: 607 687-1010
AUTH DEP CHARLES L BENNETT          BENNETT       3:20 PM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 5:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer	68 min
Aug 6, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Berkshire	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1989 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989

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.