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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Albany, NY

June 29, 1990Ulster County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1990, 6:53 PM EDT for Ulster County, New York. It was in force for 67 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: Jun 29, 1990, 6:53 PM EDT (22:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1990, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 67 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 29, 7:42 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Ulster, 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, 10.9 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1036 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 158 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, Jun 29, 5:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP C
0501PM EST FRI JUN 29 1990
CBSO WLSR APTS
04264    FILE 28   BROOME CO SO BING NY0030000       JUN 29-90
TO           NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
                   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM REPORT

DETAILS CONCERNING EVENT: SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS NOW IN WESTERN BROOME
COUNTY/HAVE HAD LIGHTNING STRIKES & MINOR STREET FLOODING
LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD): TOWN OF UNION/ENDICOTT/
WEST CORNERS ROUTE 26 AREA
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: 062990/4-45 PM
DATE AND TIME CONDITION ENDED:
EXTENT OF DAMAGE OR AREAS IN DANGER: MINIMUM AT THIS TIME

NUMBER KILLED: 0        NUMBER INJURED: 0
REMARKS:

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AUTH PHONE #: 607 778-1911
AUTH CAPT RAYMOND OSTERHOUT         MCMANUS       5-00 PM

Special weather statement, Jun 29, 5:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

NYZ012-020-292200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
505 PM EDT FRI JUN 29 1990

...A THUNDERSTORM WITH TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WAS NEAR ROCK CITY
FALLS SARATOGA COUNTY...

  THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL PASS NEAR
THE VILLAGE OF SARATOGA...SARATOGA LAKE AND BE NORTH OF STILL WATER
BY 545 PM.

 THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS STRENTENING AT 505PM. IT MAY HAVE STRONG WINDS
AND HAIL. BOATERS ON SARATOGA LBAKE SHOULD GET TO SHORE AT ONCE.

SNYDER

Local storm report, Jun 29, 5:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP G
0510PM EST FRI JUN 29 1990
GSCO WLSR APTS
00984    FILE 28   SCHOHARIE CO SO NY0470000         JUN 29-90
TO           NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
                   THUNDERSTORM REPORT

DETAILS CONCERNING EVENT: HEAVY THUNDERSTORM IS OCCURRING IN
VILLAGE OF SCHOHARIE SCHOHARIE COUNTY
LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD): ROUTE 30 V/SCHOHARIE

DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: 1700 HRS
DATE AND TIME CONDITION ENDED: STILL IN PROGRESS
EXTENT OF DAMAGE OR AREAS IN DANGER: NONE KNOWN

NUMBER KILLED: 0        NUMBER INJURED: 0
REMARKS: STORM STILL IN PROGRESS AT TIME OF MESSAGE

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AUTH PHONE #: 518 295-8114
AUTH DEPUTY ROBERT DEWITT           NELSON        1708

Special weather statement, Jun 29, 5:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

NYZ012-020-292300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
545 PM EDT FRI JUN 29 1990

...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...WITH TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...WAS IN EASTERN
SCHOHARIE COUNTY TO WESTERN ALBANY COUNTY AND SOUTHERN SARATOGA COUNTY.

THEY WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH...AND WILL PASS THROUGH THE
REMAINDER OF SARATOGA AND ALBANY COUNTIES INTO RENSSELAER AND NORTHERN
COLUMBIA COUNTIES BY 700 PM THIS EVENING.

THE STORMS WERE STRENGTHENING...AND MAY HAVE STRONG WINDS AND HAIL.
THEY ALSO HAVE A HISTORY OF FREQUENT LIGHTNING.

BY 630 PM THIS EVENING...THESE STORMS WILL PASS THROUGH BETHLEHEM
AND COEYMANS IN SOUTHERN ALBANY COUNTY...AS WELL AND THROUGH TROY AND
HOOSICK FALLS IN NORTHERN RENSSELAER COUNTY.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.

BACH

Local storm report, Jun 29, 5:57 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP C
0557PM EST FRI JUN 29 1990
CBSO WLSR APTS
04265    FILE 28   BROOME CO SO BING NY0030000       JUN 29-90
TO           NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
                   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM REPORT

DETAILS CONCERNING EVENT: SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS PASSED THROUGH THIS
AREA CAUSING WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES AND MINOR STREET FLOODING
LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD): TOWN OF UNION/ENDICOTT/
WINDSOR/KIRKWOOD/COLESVILLE AREAS ALONG ROUTE 17
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: 062990/4-45 PM
DATE AND TIME CONDITION ENDED: 062990/6-00 PM
EXTENT OF DAMAGE OR AREAS IN DANGER: WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES AND TREES
DOWN IN SEVERAL LOCATIONS/SEVERAL MVAS DUE TO HEAVY DOWNPOURS
NUMBER KILLED: 0        NUMBER INJURED: 0
REMARKS: WORST OF STORM APPEARS TO BE OVER AT THIS TIME/IS NOW RAINING
LIGHTLY IN ABOVE NAMED AREAS

AUTH PHONE #: 607 778-1911
AUTH CAPT RAYMOND OSTERHOUT         MCMANUS       6-00 PM

Local storm report, Jun 29, 6:39 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP G
0640PM EST FRI JUN 29 1990
GRSO WLSR APTS
01753    FILE 28   RENSSELAER COUNTY SHERIFF         JUN 29-90
TO           NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
                   THUNDERSTORM REPORT

DETAILS CONCERNING EVENT: HEAVY RAIN  FOG

LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD): STATE ROUTE 2
 TOWN OF PETERSBURG ON NEW YORK MASSACHUSETTS STATE LINE
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: CONDITION REPORTED AT 6:24 PM
DATE AND TIME CONDITION ENDED: STILL IN PROGRESS
EXTENT OF DAMAGE OR AREAS IN DANGER: NONE KNOWN

NUMBER KILLED: 0        NUMBER INJURED: 0
REMARKS: ALSO THE BERLIN FIRE DEPT ADVISES HEAVY RAIN
              ROUTE 22 TOWN OF BERLIN

AUTH PHONE #: 518 270-5252
AUTH TECH SGT MICHAEL E SUPLEE      HARRINGTON    6:40/PM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 3:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Herkimer	55 min
Jun 29, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Montgomery	60 min
Jun 29, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Greene	62 min
Jun 29, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess	67 min
Jun 29, 7:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Orange, Ulster	69 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1990 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

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.