Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this tornado warning at Jul 31, 1992, 8:14 PM EDT for Dutchess County, New York. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 31, 1992, 8:14 PM EDT (00:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 1992, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dutchess County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 275 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KALB 010017 TORALB NYC027-010100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 814 PM EDT FRI JUL 31 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK ...DUTCHESS COUNTY A TORNADO WAS SITED AT PLEASANT VALLEY AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST TO AROUND MILLBROOK. IF YOU ARE IN DUTCHESS COUNTY ...TAKE COVER NOW IN A STRONG BUILDING IN A BASEMENT.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 31, 4:38 PM EDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
NYZ010-312145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 438 PM EDT FRI JUL 31 1992 A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND STRONG WINDS WAS JUST ENTERING EXTREME SOUTHWEST SULLIVAN COUNTY ALONG THE PENNSYLVANIA BORDER AT 430 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ALONG THE WESTERN SULLIVAN COUNTY BORDER AND BE NEAR THE TOWN OF HANKINS ABOUT 500 O/CLOCK AND NEAR LIVINGSTON MANOR AIRPORT ABOUT 520 EARLY THIS EVENING. PEOPLE IN THIS AREA SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THE WEATHER... AND SEEK SAFETY SHOULD DANGEROUS WEATHER APPROACH.
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 7:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
NYZ007>008-018-010030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NEW YORK 705 PM EDT FRI JUL 31 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MAKING THEIR WAY THROUGH THE ADIRONDACKS AND SAINT LAWRENCE VALLEY... AT 655 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WERE ROVING NORTHEASTWARD THROUGH THE ADIRONDACKS AND SAINT LAWRENCE VALLEY. THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN LONG LAKE AND BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS AROUND RAQUETTE LAKE. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING AT NEARLY 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE AROUND NEWCOMB AROUND 750 PM. IN THE SAINT LAWRENCE VALLEY...A THUNDERSTORMS WERE AROUND POTSDAM AND SOUTH COLTON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS APPEAR TO BE WEAKENING. IF YOU ARE BOATING ON LONG LAKE...THE UPPER REACHES OF THE HUDSON RIVER AROUND NEWCOMB OR ON THE CEDAR RIVER...GET TO SHELTER NOW. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING KILLS HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE EACH YEAR. DO NOT BECOME ONE OF THE STATISTICS. END/MRM
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 8:12 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
NYZ013-010200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NEW YORK 810 PM EDT FRI JUL 31 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE CHUGGING THROUGH DUTCHESS COUNTY THIS EVENING... AT 805 PM...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL WAS ABOUT FIVE MILES NORTH OF POUGHKEEPSIE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL CROSS THE TACONIC STATE PARKWAY BETWEEN 810 PM AND QUARTER AFTER EIGHT O CLOCK. A SECOND THUNDERSTORM ABOUT TWO MILES SOUTH OF KINGSTON WAS FOLLOWING THE FIRST ONE. THE FIRST THUNDERSTORM SHOULD REACH THE CONNECTICUT BORDER EAST OF MILLERTON AROUND HALF PAST EIGHT O CLOCK. ALSO...THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE WINDS OF AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR IN ADDITION TO PEA SIZED HAIL...DOWNPOURS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SEEK COVER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS IN NORTHERN DUTCHESS COUNTY AND BOATERS ON THE HUDSON RIVER SHOULD GO TO HARBOR AND GET INSIDE A SHELTER. A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR ULSTER COUNTY UNTIL 1100 PM AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL ELEVEN O CLOCK FOR DUTCHESS COUNTY. END
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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.