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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Albany, NY

July 9, 1994Montgomery County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1994, 7:20 PM EDT for Montgomery County, New York. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 9, 1994, 7:20 PM EDT (23:20 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 1994, 8:20 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Montgomery County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 55 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 1994-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 856 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 1994-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 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
856 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
654 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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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

Local storm report, Jul 9, 4:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 5:09 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
NYZ041-092200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
508 PM EDT SAT JUL 9 1994

AT 520 PM A THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF SARATOGA
SPRINGS NEAR KINGS STATION.

BY 535 PM THE THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH ABOUT BACON HILL IN NORTHEAST
SARATOGA COUNTY.

BY TEN MINUTES TO SIX O CLOCK...IT WILL REACH THE HUDSON RIVER NEAR
FORT MILLER.

IF YOU ARE BOATING ON THE HUDSON RIVER NEAR FORT MILLER...YOU SHOULD
PROCEED OFF THE WATER AND SEEK SHELTER.
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 5:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
NYZ048-049-051-052-092230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
527 PM EDT SAT JUL 9 1994

...THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH SCHENECTADY AND ALBANY
COUNTIES BETWEEN 530 AND 630 THIS EVENING...

THE STORM WITH THE HEAVIEST DOWNPOURS AND MOST FREQUENT CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING WAS NEAR THE CITY OF SCHENECTADY AND
WILL BE NEAR CLIFTON PARK BETWEEN 540 AND 545PM. IT WILL
REACH MECHANICVILLE BY 550PM. WINDS ACOMPANING THE STORM
WILL GUST TO 30 TO 35 MPH AND IT WILL HAVE HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

MOST OF ALBANY COUNTY NORTH OF BERNE AND NORTH OF THE
CITY OF ALBANY WILL HAVE THUNDERSTORMS BY 605 PM.

WHEN THESE STORMS APPROACH GO TO A SAFE PLACE.

SNYDER
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 5:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
NYZ048>052-092230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
527 PM EDT SAT JUL 9 1994

...THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH SCHENECTADY AND ALBANY
COUNTIES BETWEEN 530 AND 630 THIS EVENING...

THE STORM WITH THE HEAVIEST DOWNPOURS AND MOST FREQUENT CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING WAS NEAR THE CITY OF SCHENECTADY AND
WILL BE NEAR CLIFTON PARK BETWEEN 540 AND 545PM. IT WILL
REACH MECHANICVILLE BY 550PM. WINDS ACOMPANING THE STORM
WILL GUST TO 30 TO 35 MPH AND IT WILL HAVE HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

MOST OF ALBANY COUNTY NORTH OF BERNE AND NORTH OF THE
CITY OF ALBANY WILL HAVE THUNDERSTORMS BY 605 PM.

WHEN THESE STORMS APPROACH GO TO A SAFE PLACE.

SNYDER
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 6:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
NYZ032>033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066-VTZ013>014-MAZ001-100000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
610 PM EDT SAT JUL 9 1994

...MORE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ENTER EASTERN NEW YORK THIS EVENING...

A SOLID LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM NEAR BLEECKER IN FULTON
COUNTY TO NEAR SOUTH GILBOA IN SCHOHARIE COUNTY BY 720 PM.  THESE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...
AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM NEAR NORTH DORSET IN
BENNINGTON COUNTY VERMONT TO NEAR HOOSICK FALLS IN RENSSELAER COUNTY
BY 720 PM.  THE HEAVIEST RAIN WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR CAMBRIDGE
IN WASHINGTON COUNTY.

JANUS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 8:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYEssex, Franklin68 min
Jul 9, 2:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYRensselaer, Saratoga60 min
Jul 9, 3:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia, Greene46 min
Jul 9, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHerkimer66 min
Jul 9, 6:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHamilton60 min
Jul 9, 6:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHerkimer30 min
Jul 9, 7:49 PM EDTTornado WarningALYAlbany26 min
Jul 9, 7:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYSchenectady30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1994Every 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.