Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 1990, 4:03 PM EDT for Rensselaer County, New York. It was in force for 57 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
- Sep 2, 1990, 4:03 PM EDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 1990, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rensselaer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 4:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Rensselaer, 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
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
Special weather statement, Sep 2, 2:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 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, 59 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, 22 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, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Saratoga | 61 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.