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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Albany, NY

September 10, 1992Washington County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 1992, 5:48 PM EDT for Washington County, New York. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 10, 1992, 5:48 PM EDT (21:48 UTC)
Expired: Sep 10, 1992, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Washington County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 77 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: 236 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 634 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Sep 10, 2:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 10, 2:27 PM EDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 10, 5:05 PM EDT, 43 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP C
0508PM EDT THU SEP 10 1992
CBSO WLSR QHQT QTRF APTS WAPT
06087    FILE 28   BROOME CO SO BINGHAMTON NY0030000  SEP 10-92
TO       NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
         COPY SEMO DUTY OFFICER
                   THUNDERSTORM/HIGH WIND REPORT

COUNTY(S) AFFECTED: BROOME

LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD): JUNE ST, NORTH ST, NY RT 26-TOWN OF
UNION; EDSON RD- TOWN OF MAINE
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: 1620 HRS THIS DATE
EXTENT OF DAMAGE OR AREAS IN DANGER: TREES/WIRES DOWN, CHIMNEY BLOWN OVER ON
PRIVATE RESIDENCE NORTH ST AT S WILLIS AVE-TOWN OF UNION

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:          NUMBER INJURED:

CHECK ONE OR MORE AS APPLICABLE:
LIGHTNING REPORTED AS (X) - CLOUD TO CLOUD  (X) - CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING DAMAGE TO:            (X) - TREES
(X) - 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
( ) - OUT/FARM BUILDINGS  ( ) - POWER/TELCO POLES
(X) - POWER/TELCO LINES

RELIABLE WIND SPEED REPORTS:     MPH OR    KNOTS
NUMBER KILLED:          NUMBER INJURED:

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:

AUTH PHONE #: 607 778-2170

AUTH EMER MGR MICHAEL ASWAD                    CHELLIS      5-05 PM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 10, 12:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Franklin	57 min
Sep 10, 1:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Franklin	63 min
Sep 10, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	57 min
Sep 10, 3:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Washington	40 min
Sep 10, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Warren	53 min
Sep 10, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Essex	37 min
Sep 10, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga, Warren	62 min
Sep 10, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga	56 min
Sep 10, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Schenectady	56 min
Sep 10, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Greene	67 min
Sep 10, 6:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Sullivan, Ulster	56 min
Sep 10, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Washington	65 min
Sep 10, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Rensselaer	58 min
Sep 10, 7:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess, Ulster	57 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.