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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Albany, NY

July 26, 1994Saratoga County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1994, 1:49 PM EDT for Saratoga County, New York. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 26, 1994, 1:49 PM EDT (17:49 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 1994, 2:45 PM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Saratoga County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 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 1994-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 402 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 1994-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 114 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
402 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-90 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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The text

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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, Jul 26, 1:26 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
NYZ039>041-043-047>050-261900-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
126 PM EDT TUE JUL 26 1994

...A LINE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE CAPITAL REGION NORTH OF
ALBANY...

THUNDERSTORMS...WITH HEAVY RAIN...WILL MOVE ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM
SHARON IN SCHOHARIE COUNTY TO JUST WEST OF SARATOGA SPRINGS IN SARATOGA
COUNTY THROUGH 230 PM. THEY WILL PASS THROUGH CHARLESTON AND AMSTERDAM
IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY AS WELL AS GALWAY IN SARATOGA COUNTY. THE LEADING
EDGE OF THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST TO FORT EDWARD
IN WASHINGTON COUNTY BY 230 PM.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY
WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 2:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWashington62 min
Jul 26, 2:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYSaratoga27 min
Jul 26, 3:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYRensselaer42 min
Jul 26, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia60 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.