Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1993, 1:59 PM EDT for Fulton County, Montgomery County, New York. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1993, 1:59 PM EDT (17:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1993, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fulton County, NY, Montgomery County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 1456 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KALB 151801 SVRALY NYC035-057-151900- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 159 PM EDT TUE JUN 15 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN EAST NEW YORK ...FULTON COUNTY...MONTGOMERY COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS BETWEEN DOLGEVILLE AND OPPENHEIM AT 155 PM. ANOTHER AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS NEAR HALLSVILLE IN WESTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AROUND FORTY-FIVE MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH GLOVERSVILLE BY 225 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 1:30 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
NYZ006>013-018>020-100800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 130 PM EDT TUE JUN 15 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL EIGHT O CLOCK FOR EASTERN NEW YORK FROM THE NORTH HALF OF THE CATSKILLS NORTHWARD... THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH THE WESTERN BOUNDARIES OF FULTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES BY TWO O CLOCK. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WIND GUSTS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH THE GLOVERSVILLE/JOHNSTOWN AREA AROUND 2305 PM AND AMSTERDAM WILL BE STRUCK BY THE THUNDERSTORMS BEFORE THREE O CLOCK. ADDITIONALLY...THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH COBLESKILL AROUND TWO THIRTY. AT 125 PM EDT...THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM SOUTHEAST SAINT LAWRENCE COUNTY AROUND CRANBERRY LAKE TO EAST CENTRAL HERKIMER COUNTY AROUND WILMURT SOUTH TO AROUND BAINBRIDGE IN THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER VALLEY IN SOUTHEASTERN CHENANGO COUNTY. BE READY TO TAKE COVER IF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ISSUES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING.
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 1:31 PM EDT, 28 minutes before
NYZ006>013-018>020-100800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 130 PM EDT TUE JUN 15 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL EIGHT O CLOCK FOR EASTERN NEW YORK FROM THE NORTH HALF OF THE CATSKILLS NORTHWARD... THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH THE WESTERN BOUNDARIES OF FULTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES BY TWO O CLOCK. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WIND GUSTS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH THE GLOVERSVILLE/JOHNSTOWN AREA AROUND 2305 PM AND AMSTERDAM WILL BE STRUCK BY THE THUNDERSTORMS BEFORE THREE O CLOCK. ADDITIONALLY...THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH COBLESKILL AROUND TWO THIRTY. AT 125 PM EDT...THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM SOUTHEAST SAINT LAWRENCE COUNTY AROUND CRANBERRY LAKE TO EAST CENTRAL HERKIMER COUNTY AROUND WILMURT SOUTH TO AROUND BAINBRIDGE IN THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER VALLEY IN SOUTHEASTERN CHENANGO COUNTY. BE READY TO TAKE COVER IF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ISSUES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING.
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 1:35 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
NYZ007>013-018>020-151830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 135 PM EDT TUE JUN 15 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL EIGHT O CLOCK FOR EASTERN NEW YORK FROM THE NORTH HALF OF THE CATSKILLS NORTHWARD... THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH THE WESTERN BOUNDARIES OF FULTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES BY TWO O CLOCK. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WIND GUSTS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH THE GLOVERSVILLE/JOHNSTOWN AREA AROUND 225 PM AND AMSTERDAM WILL BE STRUCK BY THE THUNDERSTORMS BEFORE THREE O CLOCK. ADDITIONALLY...THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH COBLESKILL AROUND TWO THIRTY. AT 125 PM EDT...THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM SOUTHEAST SAINT LAWRENCE COUNTY AROUND CRANBERRY LAKE TO EAST CENTRAL HERKIMER COUNTY AROUND WILMURT SOUTH TO AROUND BAINBRIDGE IN THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER VALLEY IN SOUTHEASTERN CHENANGO COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT THIRTY-FIVE MILES AN HOUR. BE READY TO TAKE COVER IF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ISSUES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING. WWUS30KTUL ,
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 1:35 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
NYZ007>013-018>020-151830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 135 PM EDT TUE JUN 15 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL EIGHT O CLOCK FOR EASTERN NEW YORK FROM THE NORTH HALF OF THE CATSKILLS NORTHWARD... THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH THE WESTERN BOUNDARIES OF FULTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES BY TWO O CLOCK. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WIND GUSTS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH THE GLOVERSVILLE/JOHNSTOWN AREA AROUND 225 PM AND AMSTERDAM WILL BE STRUCK BY THE THUNDERSTORMS BEFORE THREE O CLOCK. ADDITIONALLY...THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH COBLESKILL AROUND TWO THIRTY. AT 125 PM EDT...THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM SOUTHEAST SAINT LAWRENCE COUNTY AROUND CRANBERRY LAKE TO EAST CENTRAL HERKIMER COUNTY AROUND WILMURT SOUTH TO AROUND BAINBRIDGE IN THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER VALLEY IN SOUTHEASTERN CHENANGO COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT THIRTY-FIVE MILES AN HOUR. BE READY TO TAKE COVER IF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ISSUES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING. WWUS30KTUL ,
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 1:40 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
NYZ007>013-018>020-MAZ010-151830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 140 PM EDT TUE JUN 15 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL EIGHT O CLOCK FOR EASTERN NEW YORK FROM THE NORTH HALF OF THE CATSKILLS NORTHWARD AND BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS... A SMALL THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR CAROGA LAKE IN FULTON COUNTY...BUT MORE SIGNIFICANT THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH THE WESTERN BOUNDARIES OF FULTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES BY TWO O CLOCK. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WIND GUSTS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH THE GLOVERSVILLE/JOHNSTOWN AREA AROUND 225 PM AND AMSTERDAM WILL BE STRUCK BY THE THUNDERSTORMS BEFORE THREE O CLOCK. ADDITIONALLY...THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH COBLESKILL AROUND TWO THIRTY. AT 125 PM EDT...THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM SOUTHEAST SAINT LAWRENCE COUNTY AROUND CRANBERRY LAKE TO EAST CENTRAL HERKIMER COUNTY AROUND WILMURT SOUTH TO AROUND BAINBRIDGE IN THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER VALLEY IN SOUTHEASTERN CHENANGO COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT THIRTY-FIVE MILES AN HOUR. BE READY TO TAKE COVER IF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ISSUES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING.
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 1:42 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
NYZ007>013-018>020-MAZ010-151830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 140 PM EDT TUE JUN 15 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL EIGHT O CLOCK FOR EASTERN NEW YORK FROM THE NORTH HALF OF THE CATSKILLS NORTHWARD AND BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS... A SMALL THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR CAROGA LAKE IN FULTON COUNTY...BUT MORE SIGNIFICANT THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH THE WESTERN BOUNDARIES OF FULTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES BY TWO O CLOCK. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WIND GUSTS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH THE GLOVERSVILLE/JOHNSTOWN AREA AROUND 225 PM AND AMSTERDAM WILL BE STRUCK BY THE THUNDERSTORMS BEFORE THREE O CLOCK. ADDITIONALLY...THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH COBLESKILL AROUND TWO THIRTY. AT 125 PM EDT...THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM SOUTHEAST SAINT LAWRENCE COUNTY AROUND CRANBERRY LAKE TO EAST CENTRAL HERKIMER COUNTY AROUND WILMURT SOUTH TO AROUND BAINBRIDGE IN THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER VALLEY IN SOUTHEASTERN CHENANGO COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT THIRTY-FIVE MILES AN HOUR. BE READY TO TAKE COVER IF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ISSUES A SEVERE THUNDERSTDORM WARNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Saratoga | 66 min |
| Jun 15, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Washington | 59 min |
| Jun 15, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Herkimer | 55 min |
| Jun 15, 6:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ALY | Hamilton | 69 min |
| Jun 15, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton | 62 min |
| Jun 15, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Saratoga | 67 min |
| Jun 15, 7:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ALY | Fulton, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady | 56 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.