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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Albany, NY

May 12, 1994Columbia County, Dutchess County, Ulster County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 1994, 12:50 PM EDT for Columbia County, Dutchess County, Ulster County, New York. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 12, 1994, 12:50 PM EDT (16:50 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 1994, 1:45 PM EDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Ulster County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 80 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 1994-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1994-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 194 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
647 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
194 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
198 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.