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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Albany, NY

July 5, 1992Fulton County, Montgomery County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1992, 2:26 PM EDT for Fulton County, Montgomery County, New York. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 1992, 2:26 PM EDT (18:26 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1992, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Fulton County, NY, Montgomery County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 60 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1992-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1992-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 140 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1016 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
140 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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, Jul 5, 1:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jul 5, 2:01 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP D
0201PM EDT SUN JUL 05 1992
DHQT WLSR DSAP DPAP DADM WAPT GFON TSYR QHQT
05262       FILE 28   SP ONEIDA NY1260100   JUN 05-92    ADDED
TO          NWS

REF 5261 FILE DATE APB RE THUNDERSTORM

STORM HAS HIT TOWNS OF MARCY AND WHITESTOWN IN ONEIDA COUNTY

HIGH WINDS, HEAVY RAIN, TREES DOWN

AUTH SP NEW HARTFORD            MORE 2-00 PM

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Local storm report, Jul 5, 2:25 PM EDT, 1 minute before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP D
0224PM EDT SUN JUL 05 1992
DHQT WLSR DSAP DPAP GFON WAPT DADM TSYR
05263       FILE 28   SP ONEIDA NY1260100    JUN 05-92   ADDED
TO          APB

REF 5261 FILE DATE DCT RE STORM

SERIOUS STORM IN EAST ONEIDA AND WEST HERKIMER COUNTIES

TREES UPROOTED, STRON GALE WINDS, GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL

STORM HEADED NORTHEAST AS PER APTROLS

PATROLS REPORT A "LINE FORMATION" TYPE CLOUD STRUCTURE

AREAS CURRENTLY AFFECTED - ORISKANY TO SCHUYLER ALONG ST ROUTE 5

CIVILIAM HAS CALLED SP NEW HARTFORD 315-736-0121 TO REPORT A FUNNEL -
NO CONFIRMATION OR SIGHTING BY POLICE PERSONNEL - CIVILIAN CALLED FROM
NEW HARTFORD AREA

AUTH DISTRICT STATIONS         MORE 2-23 PM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 1:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHerkimer59 min
Jul 5, 2:04 PM EDTTornado WarningALYHerkimer41 min
Jul 5, 3:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYSaratoga, Schenectady65 min
Jul 5, 4:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYUlster62 min
Jul 5, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYDutchess, Putnam69 min
Jul 5, 4:46 PM EDTTornado WarningALYDutchess, Putnam29 min
Jul 5, 5:17 PM EDTTornado WarningALYPutnam28 min
Jul 5, 5:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYPutnam29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.