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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Albany, NY

April 27, 1994Dutchess County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1994, 4:52 PM EDT for Dutchess County, New York. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued: Apr 27, 1994, 4:52 PM EDT (20:52 UTC)
Expired: Apr 27, 1994, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Dutchess County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 103 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1128 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 192 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, Apr 27, 2:38 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

NYZ032>033-038>043-047>054-058>066-272000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
235 PM EDT WED APR 27 1994

THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS WILL MOVE THROUGH
THE CAPITAL DISTRICT...CATSKILLS AND MID HUDSON VALLEY BETWEEN 245 PM
AND 400 PM.

THUNDERSTORMS FROM CAROGA LAKE IN FULTON COUNTY TO GRAHAMSVILLE IN
SULLIVAN COUNTY WILL REACH THE HUDSON VALLEY FROM THE CITY SARAOGA SPRINGS
TO WEST KILL IN GREENE COUNTY BY 315 PM...AND WILL BE FROM HOOSICK FALLS
IN RENSSELAER COUNTY TO COXSACKIE IN GREENE COUNTY BY 345 PM.

ANOTHER STORM NEAR GRAHAMSVILLE IN SULLIVAN COUNTY WILL MOVE TO NEAR
KINGSTON IN ULSTER COUNTY BY 315 PM...AND TO NEAR MILLERTON IN EASTERN
DUTCHESS COUNTY BY 400 PM.

CRISTALDI

Local storm report, Apr 27, 2:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP F
0251PM     WED APR 27 1994
FLIB WLSR QHQT QTRF WAPT
00408    FILE 28   PD LIBERTY NY0522000               APR 27-94
TO       NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
         COPY SEMO DUTY OFFICER
                   THUNDERSTORM/HIGH WIND REPORT

COUNTY(S) AFFECTED: SULLIVAN COUNTY-VILLAGE OF LIBERTY

LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD): VILLAGE OF LIBERTY

DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: 04/27/94   2-28PM
EXTENT OF DAMAGE OR AREAS IN DANGER: VILLAGE OF LIBERTY

CHECK ONE:
HAIL SIZE REPORTED
( ) - NO HAIL REPORTED    (X) - LESS THAN 1/2" (PEA)
( ) - 1/2" (MARBLE)       ( ) - 1/2" TO 3/4" (PENNY)
( ) - 3/4" TO 1" (DIME)   ( ) - 1.25" (HALF DOLLAR)
( ) - 1.50" (WALNUT)      ( ) - 1.75" (GOLFBALL)
( ) - 2.00" (HENS EGG)    ( ) - 2.50" (TENNISBALL)
( ) - 2.75" (BASEBALL)    ( ) - 3.00" (TEA CUP)
( ) - 4.00" (GRAPEFRUIT)  ( ) - 4.50" (SOFTBALL)
NUMBER KILLED: 0        NUMBER INJURED: 0

CHECK ONE OR MORE AS APPLICABLE:
LIGHTNING REPORTED AS ( ) - CLOUD TO CLOUD  (X) - CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING DAMAGE TO:            ( ) - TREES
( ) - POWER/TELCO POLES   ( ) - POWER/TELCO LINES
( ) - COMM. BUILDINGS     ( ) - PRIVATE HOMES
( ) - OUT/FARM BUILDINGS  ( ) - CROPS
NUMBER KILLED: 0        NUMBER INJURED: 0

CHECK ONE OR MORE AS APPLICABLE:
HIGH WIND/T'STORM WIND DAMAGE   ( ) - CROPS
( ) - SMALL TREES/SHRUBS  ( ) - LARGE TREES
( ) - COMM. BUILDINGS     ( ) - PRIVATE HOMES
( ) - OUT/FARM BUILDINGS  ( ) - POWER/TELCO POLES
( ) - POWER/TELCO LINES

RELIABLE WIND SPEED REPORTS:     MPH OR    KNOTS
NUMBER KILLED: 0        NUMBER INJURED: 0

FLOODING (IF EXTENSIVE, SEND SEPARATE FLOOD MESSAGE FROM MENU)
(X) - STORM SEWER OVERFLOWS, UNDERPASSES, STREET FLOODING
( ) - LOCAL SMALL CREEKS OVERFLOWING
( ) - STREAMS AND LARGE CREEKS FLOODING (COMPLETE REMARKS W/DAMAGE

REMARKS: SKY CLOUDED OVER AT APPROX 2-15 TO 2-20PM-RAIN STARTED AT 2-28PM
WITH THUNDER AND LIGHTNING (NO DAMAGE REPRORTED) SHORTLY AFTER RAIN STARTED
IT BECAME EXTREMELY HEAVY AND WAS ACCOMPANIED BY SMALL HAIL. RAIN STARTED TO
SUBSIDE AND BY 2-45PM RAIN HAD STOPPED AND SUN IS AGAIN SHINING
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 TELEPHONE #: 914 292-4422

AUTH AND SENT PAUL H LEROY  2-49PM

Local storm report, Apr 27, 3:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 27, 4:14 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 27, 3:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga, Schenectady	56 min
Apr 27, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Washington	59 min
Apr 27, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer	55 min
Apr 27, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia	26 min
Apr 27, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Franklin	30 min
Apr 27, 4:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Berkshire	35 min
Apr 27, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Berkshire	31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1994 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

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.