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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Albany, NY

August 2, 1993Saratoga County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1993, 2:13 PM EDT for Saratoga County, New York. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 2, 1993, 2:13 PM EDT (18:13 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 1993, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Saratoga County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 303 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, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 1993-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 347 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, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 1993-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
347 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 12:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHerkimer69 min
Aug 2, 1:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYFulton, Montgomery57 min
Aug 2, 2:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYSchoharie34 min
Aug 2, 3:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWashington60 min
Aug 2, 5:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia32 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.