Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 1990, 3:44 PM EDT for Saratoga County, New York. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 1990, 3:44 PM EDT (19:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 1990, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 239 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 827 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KALB 021944 SVRALB NYC091-022045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 344 PM EDT SUN SEP 2 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN EAST NEW YORK ...SARATOGA COUNTY AT 340 PM RADAR AT THE ALBANY COUNTY AIRPORT SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR GALWAY IN SARATOGA COUNTY. IT WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL BE NEAR CLIFTON PARK BETWEEN 400 AND 415 PM EDT. THIS STORM WILL CAUSE LARGE HAIL AND VERY STRONG WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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
Special weather statement, Sep 2, 2:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
NYZ008>010-012-013-018>020-021930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 225 PM SUN SEP 2 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT IN MUCH OF SOUTHEAST NEW YORK... AT 220 PM A LINE OF SHOWERS AND WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM RUTLAND VERMONT TO UTICA AND BINGHAMTON. THE MOST ACTIVE STORMS WERE BETWEEN UTICA AND BINGHAMTON. THEY WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL REACH SCHOHARIE COUNTY BETWEEN 245 AND 315 PM. SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL HERKIMER AND SOUTHEAST HAMILTON COUNTY WILL REACH PARTS OF THE EASTERN MOHAWK VALLEY BETWEEN 245 AND 315 PM. EVEN THOUGH THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE QUITE ISOLATEDQ...MORE MAY DEVELOP... AND THEY HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE STRONG...DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL.
Special weather statement, Sep 2, 3:04 PM EDT, 40 minutes before
NYZ018-009-010-012-013-019-020-022000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 303 PM SUN SEP 2 1990 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT IN MUCH OF SOUTHEAST NEW YORK. AT 300 PM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM CENTRAL HAMILTON AND HERKIMER COUNTIES IN THE ADIRONDACKS SOUTHWEST TO BINGHAMTON. THE THUNDERSTORM WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN AND MOST FREQUENT LIGHNTING WAS MOVING INTO THE WESTERN CATSKILLS. ALL THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST ABOUT 40 MPH. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OUT OF THE ADIRONDACKS INTO THE MOHAWK VALLEY BETWEEN 315 PM AND 345 PM. ALSO...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE WESTERN CATSKILLS AND NEAR THE SULLIVAN-ULSTER COUNTY LINE BETWEEN 345 PM TO 415 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CROSS THE ULSTER-SULLIVAN COUNTY LINE BETWEEN ROSCOE IN SULLIVAN COUNTY AND TURNWOOD IN ULSTER COUNTY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO POPPING UP IN SARATOGA COUNTY JUST EAST OF SARATOGA SPRINGS ALONG ROUTE 29. THESE WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST AND CROSS BETWEEN KECTHUM CORNERS AND SCHUYLERVILLE BETWEEN 315 PM AND 400 PM . YOU CAN EXPECT STRONG WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...DOWNPOURS AND HAIL WITH THESE STORMS. KANE
Special weather statement, Sep 2, 3:41 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
NYZ019-010-012-013-019-020-022045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 340 PM SUN SEP 2 1990 THUNDERSTORMS WERE RUMBLING THROUGH EASTERN NEW YORK THIS AFTERNOON. AT 340 PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY INTO SARATOGA COUNTY. MORE WERE IN THE WESTERN CATSKILLS AND IN FULTON COUNTY OF THE EASTERN MOHAWK VALLEY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVISET RAIN AND MOST FREQUENT LIGHTNING WERE IN THE WESTERN CATSKILLS AND WILL BE MOVING INTO SULLIVAN AND ULSTER COUNTIES BY 400 PM. THEY/LL CROSS THE COUNTY LINES BETWEEN ABOUT TURNWOOD IN ULSTER COUNTY AND ROSCOE IN SULLIVAN COUNTY. MORE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY WHERE PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED BY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS IN EASTERN SARATOGA COUNTY JUST NORTH OF SARATOGA LAKE. > THUNDERSTORMS WILL CROSS INTO NORTHERN RENSSELAER COUNTY BETWEEN JOHNSVILLE AND HOOSICK FALLS BETWEEN 400 PM AND 430 PM THIS AFTERNOON. YOU CAN EXPECT STRONG WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...DOWNPOURS AND HAIL WITH THESE STORMS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS UP FOR MUCH OF EASTERN NEW YORK UNTIL 800 PM THIS EVENING. KANE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer | 57 min |
| Sep 2, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer | 59 min |
Nearby
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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.