Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1990, 5:07 PM EDT for Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 20, 1990, 5:07 PM EDT (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 1990, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Berkshire County, MA
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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 574 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 993 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KALB 202123 SVRALB MAC003-202200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 507 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN WEST MASSACHUSETTS ...BERKSHIRE COUNTY AT 522 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN NORTH ADAMS AND PITTSFIELD MASSACHUSETTS. THEY WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL AFFECT MUCH OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY BETWEEN 525 AND 600 PM EDT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, Jul 20, 1:31 PM EDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK TROOP D 0134PM EST FRI JUL 20 1990 DHQT WLSR DADM 05926 FILE 28 SP ONEIDA NY1260100 JUL 20-90 TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETAILS CONCERNING EVENT: WEATHER CONDITIONS LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD): MADISON COUNTY REMARKS: STORM IN ONEIDA HAS PASSED OVER - NO DAMAGE OR INJURY REPORTS - LIGHT RAIN AND MILD WIND AUTH PHONE #: 315 363-4400 AUTH AND SENT TPR C J MORE 1-33 PM
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 2:08 PM EDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
NYZ008>013-018>020-201900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 207 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH THE MOHAWK AND UPPER HUDSON VALLEYS... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHERN AND EASTERN NEW YORK. AT 200 PM A LINE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM THE SOUTHERN END OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN TO THE WESTERN MOHAWK VALLEY. ONE STORM WAS JUST EAST OF LAKE GEORGE VILLAGE. IT/LL MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY BETWEEN 210 AND 230 PM. IT/LL CAUSE VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. ANOTHER STORM WAS IN SOUTHWEST FULTON COUNTY NEAR OPPENHEIM. THAT/S 15 MILES EAST OF UTICA. IT/LL AFFECT THE JOHNSTOWN/ GLOVERSVILLE AREA BY ABOUT 230 PM. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALL MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 3:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
NYZ008>013-018>020-202000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 305 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHERN AND EASTERN NEW YORK... AT 255 PM EDT A LINE OF SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM GLENS FALLS ACROSS THE EASTERN MOHAWK VALLEY TO NEAR COOPERSTOWN. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE MOST ACTIVE STORMS WERE FROM THE SACANDAGA RESERVOIR ACROSS NORTHERN SARATOGA...AND SOUTHERN WARREN COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN WHICH COULD FLOOD ROADS AND UNDERPASSES. REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. IF THE WEATHER GETS THREATENING GET TO A SAFE PLACE FAST.
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 3:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
NYZ008>013-018>020-202000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 345 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS WERE MOVING THROUGH SCHOHARIE COUNTY... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHERN AND EASTERN NEW YORK. AT 340 PM A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS IN WESTERN SCHOHARIE COUNTY FROM SHARON TO SUMMIT. BY ABOUT 400 PM EDT THESE STORMS WILL BE ALONG HIGHWAY 30 FROM CENTRAL BRIDGE TO SCHOAHRIE AND MIDDLEBURGH. THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY HAIL. OTHER SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM MANCHESTER VERMONT...ACROSS NORTHERN SARATOGA COUNTY TIO MONTGOMERY COUNTY. THEY WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF THE WEATHER GETS THREATENING...GET TO A SAFE SHELTER FAST.
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 4:14 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
NYZ008>013-018>020-202100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 415 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHERN AND EASTERN NEW YORK... AT 410 PM EDT A LINE OF SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM BENNINGTON VERMONT....ACROSS THE CAPITAL DISTRICT TO THE SCHOHARIE RESERVOIR. A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLY HAIL WAS IN THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF RENSSELAER COUNTY NEAR HOOSICK FALLS. IT/LL MOVE INTO VERMONT BY 430 PM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER SOUTHERN SCHENECTADY AND NORTHERN ALBANY COUNTIES. THE PASSAGE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO CAUSE BRIEF WIND GUSTS TO BETWEEN 30 AND 40 MPH. < THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF THE WEATHER GETS THREATENING...GET TO A SAFE bSHELTER FAST.
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 4:46 PM EDT, 21 minutes before
NYZ008>013-018>020-MAZ006-202130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 445 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEAST NEW YORK... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NEW YORK IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FROM THE CAPITAL DISTRICT NORTH AND WEST. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR ALL THE CATSKILLS...AND IN THE LOWER HUDSON VALLEY FOR COLUMBIA...GREENE AND ULSTER COUNTIES. AT 440 PM A LINE OF SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM BENNINGTON VERMONT...ACROSS THE CAPITAL DISTRICT...TO 20 MILES EAST OF BINGHAMTON. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN AVERILL PARK AND NASSUA IN RENSSELAER COUNTY WERE CAUSING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN RENSSELAER COUNTY BETWEEN 445 AND 500 PM. THEY/LL REACH NORTHWEST BERKSHIRE COUNTY AROUND 500 PM. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF THE WEATHER GETS THREATENING...GET TO A SAFE SHELTER FAST.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Massachusetts, 1990Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.