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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Albany, NY

August 2, 1994Rensselaer County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1994, 5:35 PM EDT for Rensselaer County, New York. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Aug 2, 1994, 5:35 PM EDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 1994, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Rensselaer County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 26 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 1994-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 138 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 1994-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 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
138 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
997 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 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, 2:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHerkimer60 min
Aug 2, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYFulton, Montgomery55 min
Aug 2, 4:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYSaratoga45 min
Aug 2, 5:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYAlbany33 min
Aug 2, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYRensselaer60 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.