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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Albany, NY

June 13, 1994Rensselaer County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1994, 8:15 PM EDT for Rensselaer County, New York. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 1994, 8:15 PM EDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1994, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Rensselaer County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 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 00:00Z on 1994-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1257 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 00:00Z on 1994-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 132 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
1257 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1084 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 8:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia25 min
Jun 13, 11:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYAlbany50 min
Jun 14, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia60 min
Jun 14, 5:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYDutchess58 min
Jun 14, 6:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYDutchess2 hr
Jun 13, 8:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYBerkshire75 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.