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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Albany, NY

July 8, 1993Saratoga County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1993, 3:13 PM EDT for Saratoga County, New York. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 8, 1993, 3:13 PM EDT (19:13 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 1993, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Saratoga County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 46 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 1993-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 808 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1993-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
808 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
874 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 12:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWarren, Washington52 min
Jul 8, 1:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYMontgomery67 min
Jul 8, 2:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYFulton61 min
Jul 8, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYAlbany45 min
Jul 8, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYRensselaer60 min
Jul 8, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia60 min
Jul 8, 4:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYBerkshire50 min

Nearby

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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.