Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 1993, 7:34 PM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1993, 7:34 PM EDT (23:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1993, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fulton County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 44 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 TTAA00 KALB 152336 TORALB NYC035-057-091-093-160030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 734 PM EDT TUE JUN 15 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN EAST NEW YORK ...EASTERN FULTON COUNTY...EASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY ...SOUTHERN SARATOGA COUNTY...SCHENECTADY COUNTY A TORNADO WAS NEAR FONDA AT 733 PM ACCORDING TO THE COUNTY SHERIFF. THE TORNADO WILL MOVE INTO CLIFTON PARK BY 755 PM. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. &
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, Jun 15, 5:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
NYZ007>013-018>020-MAZ010-152200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 555 PM EDT TUE JUN 15 1993 ...MORE THUNDERSTORMS WILL POUND THE SOUTHERN ADIRONDACKS AND THE MOHAWK VALLEY... BY 630 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM THE BORDER OF HAMILTON AND WARREN COUNTIES TO SACANDAGA RESEVOIR TO EASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR HERKIMER COUNTY UNTIL 630 PM THIS EVENING. AT 545 THIS EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM NORTHERN HERKIMER COUNTY SOUTHWEST TO ONEIDA COUNTY...INCLUDING UTICA AND ROME. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. . OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH BERKSHIRE COUNTY BETWEEN 6 O/CLOCK AND 630 PM THIS EVENING. AS THE STORMS CONTINUE EAST...RAIN WILL END IN THE CAPITAL DISTRICT...FROM THE HUDSON RIVER EAST TO TROY. . HEAVY DOWNPOURS WITH THESE STORMS MAY CAUSE FLOODING IN POORLY DRAINED AREAS...SUCH AS CULVERTS AND UNDE*RPASSES. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 O/CLOCK FOR EASTERN NEW YORK FROM THE NORTH HALF OF THE CATSKILLS NORTHWARD...BENNINGTON COUNTY VERMONT...AND BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS. LJM
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 5:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
NYZ007>013-018>020-MAZ010-152200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 555 PM EDT TUE JUN 15 1993 ...MORE THUNDERSTORMS WILL POUND THE SOUTHERN ADIRONDACKS AND THE MOHAWK VALLEY... BY 630 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM THE BORDER OF HAMILTON AND WARREN COUNTIES TO SACANDAGA RESEVOIR TO EASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR HERKIMER COUNTY UNTIL 630 PM THIS EVENING. AT 545 THIS EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM NORTHERN HERKIMER COUNTY SOUTHWEST TO ONEIDA COUNTY...INCLUDING UTICA AND ROME. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. . OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH BERKSHIRE COUNTY BETWEEN 6 O/CLOCK AND 630 PM THIS EVENING. AS THE STORMS CONTINUE EAST...RAIN WILL END IN THE CAPITAL DISTRICT...FROM THE HUDSON RIVER EAST TO TROY. . HEAVY DOWNPOURS WITH THESE STORMS MAY CAUSE FLOODING IN POORLY DRAINED AREAS...SUCH AS CULVERTS AND UNDERPASSES. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 O/CLOCK FOR EASTERN NEW YORK FROM THE NORTH HALF OF THE CATSKILLS NORTHWARD...BENNINGTON COUNTY VERMONT...AND BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS. LJM
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 6:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
NYZ007>013-018>020-MAZ010-160000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 625 PM EDT TUE JUN 15 1993 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE ST LAWRENCE VALLEY...CHAMPLAIN VALLEY...BENNINGTON COUNTY VERMONT...AND BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REST OF EASTERN NEW YORK UNTIL 1000 PM.
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 6:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
NYZ007>013-018>020-MAZ010-160000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 625 PM EDT TUE JUN 15 1993 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE ST LAWRENCE VALLEY...CHAMPLAIN VALLEY...BENNINGTON COUNTY VERMONT...AND BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REST OF EASTERN NEW YORK UNTIL 1000 PM.
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 7:17 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
NYZ012-019-020-160000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 717 PM EDT TUE JUN 15 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING INTO EXTREME SOUTHERN SARATOGA COUNTY... BY 720 PM THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT NINE MILES EAST OF AMSTERDAM...NEAR THE TOWN OF HOLBROOK CORNER IN SOUTHWESTERN SARA- TOGA COUNTY. . BY 735 PM...IT WILL BE ABOUT FIVE MILES NORTHWEST OF CLIFTON PARK ...NEAR THE TOWN OF BALLSTON CENTER IN SOUTHERN SARATOGA COUNTY AND WILL REACH MECHANICVILLE AROUND QUARTER TO EIGHT O CLOCK. AT FIVE MINUTES AFTER SEVEN O CLOCK...A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS FIVE MILES NORTH OF THE CITY OF AMSTERDAM NEAR THE TOWN OF WEST GALWAY IN SOUTHEASTERN FULTON COUNTY. IF YOU LIVE IN THE PATH OF THE THUNDERSTORM...OR ARE BOATING ON GALWAY LAKE...BALLSTON LAKE...SARATOGA LAKE OR ROUND LAKE... SEEK SHELTER. LIGHTNING IS A MAJOR SUMMER KILLER. END
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 7:17 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
NYZ012-019-020-160000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 717 PM EDT TUE JUN 15 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING INTO EXTREME SOUTHERN SARATOGA COUNTY... BY 720 PM THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT NINE MILES EAST OF AMSTERDAM...NEAR THE TOWN OF HOLBROOK CORNER IN SOUTHWESTERN SARA- TOGA COUNTY. . BY 735 PM...IT WILL BE ABOUT FIVE MILES NORTHWEST OF CLIFTON PARK ...NEAR THE TOWN OF BALLSTON CENTER IN SOUTHERN SARATOGA COUNTY AND WILL REACH MECHANICVILLE AROUND QUARTER TO EIGHT O CLOCK. AT FIVE MINUTES AFTER SEVEN O CLOCK...A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS FIVE MILES NORTH OF THE CITY OF AMSTERDAM NEAR THE TOWN OF WEST GALWAY IN SOUTHEASTERN FULTON COUNTY. IF YOU LIVE IN THE PATH OF THE THUNDERSTORM...OR ARE BOATING ON GALWAY LAKE...BALLSTON LAKE...SARATOGA LAKE OR ROUND LAKE... SEEK SHELTER. LIGHTNING IS A MAJOR SUMMER KILLER. END
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 1:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Montgomery | 61 min |
| 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 |
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.