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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Albany, NY

July 29, 1992Albany County, Rensselaer County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1992, 4:26 PM EDT for Albany County, Rensselaer County, New York. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 29, 1992, 4:26 PM EDT (20:26 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 1992, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Albany County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 8 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 862 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 107 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

Local storm report, Jul 29, 2:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP E
0235PM EDT WED JUL 29 1992
EYSO WLSR QHQT QTRF WAPT APTS
03007    FILE 28   YATES CO SO  NY0610000            JUL 29-92
TO       NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
         ATTENTION SEMO DUTY OFFICER
                   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HIGH WINDS

DETAILS CONCERNING EVENT: THUNDERSTORM WITH HIGH WINDS,HEAVY RAINS AND HAIL
SOME SEVERE LIGHTNING
COUNTY(S) AFFECTED: YATES COUNTY

LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD): NO END OF KEUKA LAKE - TOWNS OF
JERUSALEM AND MILO - ALSO WEST SHORE OF SENECA LAKE T/ MILO
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: 07-29  1:30PM
DATE AND TIME CONDITION ENDED: 07-29 2:30PM STILL CONTINUING
EXTENT OF DAMAGE OR AREAS IN DANGER: POWER LINES DOWN, TREES UPROOTED SOME
DAMAGE TO BLDGS - SOME FLOODING REPORTED
NUMBER KILLED:          NUMBER INJURED:
REMARKS: SEEMED TO PASS THRU IN NARROW BAND ALONG NO END OF KEUKA LK FROM THE
WEST GOING EAST

AUTH PHONE #: 315 536-4438
AUTH COORDINATOR GLEN MILLER                 BOYER/ 2-34PM

Local storm report, Jul 29, 3:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP W
0309PM EDT WED JUL 29 1992
WORA WLSR QHQT QTRF WAPT APTS
00012    FILE 28   ORANGE CO. EMERG. MGT. OFFICE     JUL 29-92
TO       NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
         ATTENTION SEMO DUTY OFFICER
ORANGE COUNTY SKYWARN NET ACTIVATED PER NWS REQUEST AS OF 1505 THIS DATE

REMARKS:

AUTH PHONE #: 914 294 7422
AUTH SCHMER, EMERG. COORD.                X   MOORE/1508

Special weather statement, Jul 29, 3:29 PM EDT, 57 minutes before

NYZ006-009-010-013-019>020-MAZ010-292100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
330 PM EDT DAY MON DD YEAR

THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO EASTERN NEW YORK.

THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE FROM NEAR FORT PLAIN IN
MONTGOMERY COUNTY TO COBLESKILL IN SCHOHARIE COUNTY. THEY WILL MOVE
RAPIDLY EAST TOWARD THE HUDSON VALLEY...REACHING SCHENECTADY BY
430 PM.

THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAD ALSO MOVED INTO DELAWARE
...GREENE..ULSTER...AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES IN THE CATSKILLS. THESE
STORMS WILL MOVE RAPIDLY EAST...AFFECTING LIBERTY...HUNTER MOUNTAIN...
AND TANNERSVILLE BY 430 PM.

A THUNDERSTORM WAS ALSO GROWING RAPIDLY IN SOUTHERN RENSSELAER COUNTY
NEAR NASSAU.
.
IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...BE PREPARED TO GO TO A SAFE PLACE QUICKLY.

LJM

Local storm report, Jul 29, 3:38 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP W
0339PM EDT WED JUL 29 1992
WPUT WLSR QHQT QTRF WAPT
00007    FILE 28   PUTNAM CO WARNING POINT NYSEM3900     JUL 29-92
TO       NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
         ATTENTION SEMO DUTY OFFICER
PUTNAM COUNTY SKYWARN NET ACTIVATED PER NWS REQUEST 1454 HRS THIS DATE

AUTH PHONE #: 914 225-4300
AUTH MARIO RAMPOLLA                                 EDWARDS 1533 HRS
     PUTNAM COUNTY DIRECTOR OF EMERGENCY MANAGMENT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 29, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Schoharie	46 min
Jul 29, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess	43 min
Jul 29, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Berkshire	65 min

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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.