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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Albany, NY

July 29, 1992Dutchess County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1992, 5:17 PM EDT for Dutchess County, New York. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 29, 1992, 5:17 PM EDT (21:17 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 1992, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Dutchess County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 103 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 1992-07-29Temperature 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 1992-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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, 2 hours 43 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, 2 hours 9 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, 1 hour 48 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, 1 hour 39 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

Special weather statement, Jul 29, 4:40 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
NYZ010-013-292240-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
440 PM EDT WED JUL 29 1992

...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVED OUT OF NORTHEAST
   SULLIVAN COUNTY...

A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS ABOUT EIGHT MILES EAST OF
LIBERTY AND TEN MILES NORTH OF MONTICELLO AT 415 PM.

BY 445 PM...THE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE CENTER OF
ULSTER COUNTY.

BY FIVE O CLOCK IT WILL BE TWO MILES NORTH OF GARDINER AND
BY QUARTER AFTER FIVE IT WILL REACH FIVE MILES SOUTHEAST OF
NEW PALTZ.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM EXPECT WINDS OF 30 TO 50 MILES
AN HOUR...SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 29, 3:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYSchoharie46 min
Jul 29, 4:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYAlbany, Rensselaer64 min
Jul 29, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYBerkshire65 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.