Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1992, 5:25 PM EDT for Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 1992, 5:25 PM EDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 1992, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Berkshire County, MA
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KALB 292125
SVRALB
MAC003-292230-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
525 PM EDT WED JUL 29 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE EXTREME WEST PART OF MASSACHUSETTS
BERKSHIRE
AT 520 PM EDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN
BERKSHIRE COUNTY. IT WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. THERE
WERE REPORTS OF NUMEROUS TREE LIMBS DOWN IN THE LANESBORO AND
PITTSFIELD AREAS. IT WILL MOVE TO NEAR NORTH ADAMS ABOUT 530 PM
AND TO THE VICINITY OF GREENFIELD ABOUT 545 PM.
IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA THREATENED BY THE STORpM...GO TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIN AND LIGHTNING.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 51 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/ 2-34PMLocal storm report, Jul 29, 3:08 PM EDT, 2 hours 17 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/1508Special weather statement, Jul 29, 3:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 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 47 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, 45 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.
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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.