Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1994, 7:50 PM EDT for Schenectady County, New York. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 1994, 7:50 PM EDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1994, 8:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Schenectady County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 23 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.
- 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
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Jul 9, 5:09 PM EDT, 2 hours 41 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, 2 hours 23 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, 2 hours 20 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 41 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
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 7:42 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
NYZ051-052-100015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 742 PM EDT SAT JUL 9 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH ALBANY COUNTY THIS EVENING... THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WERE NEAR WEST BERNE AND PRESTON HOLLOW AT 740 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE NEAR ALTAMONT AND WESTERLO AT 800 PM AND COLONIE AND DELMAR AT 815 PM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. QUINLAN
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 7:43 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
NYZ051-052-100015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 742 PM EDT SAT JUL 9 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH ALBANY COUNTY THIS EVENING... THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WERE NEAR WEST BERNE AND PRESTON HOLLOW AT 740 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE NEAR ALTAMONT AND WESTERLO AT 800 PM AND COLONIE AND DELMAR AT 815 PM. d IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. QUINLAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 8:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Essex, Franklin | 68 min |
| Jul 9, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer, Saratoga | 60 min |
| Jul 9, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia, Greene | 46 min |
| Jul 9, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Herkimer | 66 min |
| Jul 9, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Hamilton | 60 min |
| Jul 9, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Herkimer | 30 min |
| Jul 9, 7:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Montgomery | 60 min |
| Jul 9, 7:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ALY | Albany | 26 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.