Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1992, 8:37 PM EDT for Columbia County, New York. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 1992, 8:37 PM EDT (00:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1992, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Columbia County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 775 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KALB 150038 RRA SVRALB NYC021-150115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 837 PM EDT TUE JUL 14 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN EAST NEW YORK ...SOUTHERN COLUMBIA COUNTY AT 835 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HUDSON...NEAR THE TOWN OF COPAKE. IT WAS MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. IT WILL BE NEAR EAST CANAAN AT 800 PM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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 14, 2:41 PM EDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before
NYZ006-009>010-012>013-019>020-MAZ010-150000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 240 PM EDT TUE JUL 14 1992 A THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER THE FAR SOUTHERN GREEN MOUNTAINS OF VERMONT AND INTO THE CAPITAL DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SEVEN O CLOCK FROM THE MOHAWK VALLEY SOUTH IN EASTERN UPSTATE NEW YORK AND IN THE BERKSHIRES OF MASSACHUSETTS. A THUNDERSTORM WAS FROM THE BENNINGTON COUNTY VERMONT-BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS BORDER AND WEST THROUGH THE EASTERN TIP OF THE MOHAWK VALLEY TO AROUND SCHENECTADY. A SHOWER WAS GROWING OVER CANADARAGO LAKE IN NORTHERN OTSEGO COUNTY ...NORTHWEST OF COOPERSTOWN AND WILL REACH SHARON SPRINGS IN SCHOHARIE COUNTY BETWEEN THREE O CLOCK AND QUARTER AFTER THREE. NO LIGHTNING HAS BEEN RECORDED ON THE LIGHTNING DETECTION SYSTEM IN ASSOCIATION WITH THIS SHOWER AS OF 240 PM...BUT IT MAY BECOME A THUNDERSTORM BEFORE THREE O CLOCK. BE WATCH\FUL FOR THREATING WEATHER. BE READY TO MOVE TO SHELTER...AND MOVE THERE QUICKLY IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. END
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 3:18 PM EDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before
NYZ009-010-012-013-019-020-MAZ010-142000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 320 PM EDT TUE JUL 14 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 700 PM EDT IN UPSTATE EASTERN NEW YORK FROM THE MOHAWK VALLEY SOUTH...AND IN THE BERKSHIRES OF MASSACHUSETTS... A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. AT 310 PM A BAND OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM DUANESBURG IN SOUTHWEST SCHENECTADY COUNTY...TO SCHOHARIE AND BREAKABEEN IN SCHOHARIE COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL REACH THE HUDSON VALLEY BETWEEN ALBANY AND SAUGERTIES BETWEEN 400 PM AND 430 PM. AT THIS TIME THERE WERE NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. HOWEVER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN DEVELOP VERY RAPIDLY. IF THE WEATHER GETS THREATENING GET TO A SAFE PLACE FAST.
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 7:02 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
NYZ010-012-013-018-019-020-MAZ010-150000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 700 PM EDT TUE JUL 14 1992 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR ALBANY AND RENSSELAER COUNTIES IN THE GREATER CAPITAL DISTRICT. THE TORNADO WATCH ALSO INCLUDES THE CATSKILLS...THE LOWER HUDSON VALLEY...AND BERKSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT IN THE WESTERN ADIRONDACKS... THE MOHAWK VALLEY...AND THE LAKE GEORGE/SARATOGA REGION. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. AT 655 PM THERE WAS A THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN DUTCHESS COUNTY FROM LAFAYETTEVILLE TO MILLERTON. IN COLUMBIA COUNTY THUNDERSTORMS PERSISTED FROM CHATHAM TO COPAKE. THERE WERE ALSO THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE ALBANY COUNTY/GREENE COUNTY BORDER FROM OAK HILLS TO COEYMANS HOLLOW. ALL THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. BY 730 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OVER SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY AND OVER MUCH OF COLUMBIA COUNTY. NONE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SEVERE AT 655 PM. HOWEVER THUNDERSTORMS CAN INTENSIFY RAPIDLY. YOU SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER. IF A STORM APPROACHES YOU...GET INDOORS IMMEDIATELY AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ALSO...HEAVY RAINS FROM THUNDERSTORMS CAN CAUSE RAPID FLOODING OF STREAMS AND CREEKS....OR FLOODING IN LOW SPOTS. SL
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 7:39 PM EDT, 58 minutes before
NYZ010-012-013-018-019-020-MAZ010-150300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 738 PM EDT TUE JUL 14 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT IN THE HUDSON VALLEY FROM ALBANY SOUTH...AS WELL AS IN THE CATSKILLS AND BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS... AT 730 PM A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS IN SULLIVAN COUNTY ALONG HIGHWAY 17 BETWEEN MONTICELLO AND LIBERTY. IT WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL BE NEAR NEWBURGH BETWEEN 815 PM AND 830 PM. ALSO...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WAS IN SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY BETWEEN NEW MARLBORO AND NEW BOSTON. THIS STORM WILL MOVE OUT OF THE COUNTY BY ABOUT 800 PM. OTHER STORMS WERE IN WESTERN GREENE AND COLUMBIA COUNTIES. < NONE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SEVERE AT 735 PM. HOWEVER THUNDERSTORMS CAN INTENSIFY RAPIDLY. YOU SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER. IF A STORM APPROACHES YOU...GET INDOORS IMMEDIATELY AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ALSO...HEAVY RAINS FROM THUNDERSTORMS CAN CAUSE RAPID FLOODING OF STREAMS AND CREEKS....OR FLOODING IN LOW SPOTS.
Local storm report, Jul 14, 8:14 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP C
0815PM EDT TUE JUL 14 1992
CBSO WLSR APTS WAPT
04607 FILE 28 BROOME CO SO BINGHAMTON NY0030000 JUL 14-92
TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
THUNDERSTORM/HIGH WIND
COUNTY(S) AFFECTED: BROOME
LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD): MAINE, CHENANGO, FENTON, COLESVILLE
NUMBEROUS ROADS
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: 5:00 PM JUL 14-92
EXTENT OF DAMAGE OR AREAS IN DANGER: HIGH WINDS, HEAVY RAINS CAUSED NUMEROUS TRE
ES, POWER LINES TO COME DOWN ON HOMES, AND ROADS. SERIOUS DAMAGE TO SOME BLDGS
AND VEHICLES
CHECK ONE:
HAIL SIZE REPORTED
(X) - NO HAIL REPORTED ( ) - LESS THAN 1/2" (PEA)
( ) - 1/2" (MARBLE) ( ) - 1/2" TO 3/4" (PENNY)
( ) - 3/4" TO 1" (DIME) ( ) - 1.25" (HALF DOLLAR)
( ) - 1.50" (WALNUT) ( ) - 1.75" (GOLFBALL)
( ) - 2.00" (HENS EGG) ( ) - 2.50" (TENNISBALL)
( ) - 2.75" (BASEBALL) ( ) - 3.00" (TEA CUP)
( ) - 4.00" (GRAPEFRUIT) ( ) - 4.50" (SOFTBALL)
NUMBER KILLED: 0 NUMBER INJURED: 0
CHECK ONE OR MORE AS APPLICABLE:
LIGHTNING REPORTED AS ( ) - CLOUD TO CLOUD ( ) - CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING DAMAGE TO: ( ) - TREES
( ) - POWER/TELCO POLES ( ) - POWER/TELCO LINES
( ) - COMM. BUILDINGS ( ) - PRIVATE HOMES
( ) - OUT/FARM BUILDINGS ( ) - CROPS
NUMBER KILLED: NUMBER INJURED:
CHECK ONE OR MORE AS APPLICABLE:
HIGH WIND/T'STORM WIND DAMAGE ( ) - CROPS
(X) - SMALL TREES/SHRUBS (X) - LARGE TREES
( ) - COMM. BUILDINGS (X) - PRIVATE HOMES
(X) - OUT/FARM BUILDINGS (X) - POWER/TELCO POLES
(X) - POWER/TELCO LINES
RELIABLE WIND SPEED REPORTS: 74 MPH OR KNOTS
NUMBER KILLED: 0 NUMBER INJURED: 0
FLOODING (IF EXTENSIVE, SEND SEPARATE FLOOD MESSAGE FROM MENU)
( ) - STORM SEWER OVERFLOWS, UNDERPASSES, STREET FLOODING
( ) - LOCAL SMALL CREEKS OVERFLOWING
( ) - STREAMS AND LARGE CREEKS FLOODING (COMPLETE REMARKS W/DAMAGE
REMARKS: UNOFFICIAL- ONE COTTAGE DESTROYED, 2 GARAGES, 2 VEHICLES, ONE LARGE
SUBSTANTIAL CATTLE BARN NEARLY FLATTENED- REPORTED A GAS GRILL LIFTED 4 FT OFF
GRND THEN DROPPED- UNOFFICIAL REPORTS OF TORNADO TYPE WINDS
AUTH NPHONE #: 607 778-2170
AUTH EMER MGR MICHAEL ASWAD CHELLIS 8-14 PMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Putnam | 54 min |
| Jul 15, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Orange | 65 min |
| Jul 15, 4:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Dutchess, Putnam | 56 min |
| Jul 15, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess, Putnam | 56 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.