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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Albany, NY

May 23, 1994Fulton County, Saratoga County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1994, 2:02 PM EDT for Fulton County, Saratoga County, New York. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 23, 1994, 2:02 PM EDT (18:02 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 1994, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Fulton County, NY, Saratoga County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 53 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 1994-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 1994-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-419 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1651 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
May 23, 1:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYBerkshire35 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.