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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Albany, NY

July 7, 1994Rensselaer County, Saratoga County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1994, 5:15 PM EDT for Rensselaer County, Saratoga County, New York. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 1994, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 1994, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 27 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 1994-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1165 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 1994-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1165 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
657 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 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
Jul 7, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWashington45 min
Jul 7, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYAlbany, Rensselaer60 min
Jul 7, 6:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia, Dutchess69 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.