Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1994, 5:34 PM EDT for Saratoga County, New York. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 1994, 5:34 PM EDT (21:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 1994, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saratoga County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 445 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 679 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 22, 2:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jul 22, 2:59 PM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
NYZ038-033-221930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 255 PM EDT FRI JUL 22 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS HERKIMER AND HAMILTON COUNTIES... A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM POLAND IN SOUTHWESTERN HERKIMER COUNTY TO THE SOUTHERN END OF INDIAN LAKE IN HAMILTON COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS BETWEEN WEST CANADA LAKE AND SPRUCE MOUNTAIN. WEATHER RADAR ESTIMATED AN INCH AND A HALF OF RAIN HAD FALLED IN ABOUT AN HOUR IN SOUTH CENTRAL HERKIMER COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF NORTH WILMURT. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THEY/LL BE MOVING ACROSS INDIAN LAKE AROUND 3 O/CLOCK AND TO JUST NORTH OF NORTH CREEK BY 330 PM EDT. HEMMERICH
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 3:01 PM EDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
NYZ063-064-058-059-060-061-221915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 301 PM EDT FRI JUL 22 1994 ...A THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING THROUGH ULSTER COUNTY... A THUNDERSTORM IN ULSTER COUNTY NEAR PHOENICIA WILL MOVE TO NEAR CATSKILL IN GREENE COUNTY BY 3 O/CLOCK. THE STORM IS LIKELY TO REACH HUDSON IN COLUMBIA COUNTY BY 315 PM EDT. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS TORRENTIAL RAIN AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. HEMMERICH
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 3:19 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
NYZ060-061-222000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 319 PM EDT FRI JUL 22 1994 ...A THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN COLUMBIA COUNTY... A THUNDERSTORM WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WAS BETWEEN HUDSON AND TAGHKANIC. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AND HOUR AND WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF PHILMONT ABOUT 340 PM EDT. HEMMERICH
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 4:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
NYZ033-043-043-222115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 415 PM EDT FRI JUL 22 1994 ...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING THROUGH THE EASTERM ADIRONDACKS. AT 415 PM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED NORTHEASTWARD FROM NEAR HOPE IN HAMILTON COUNTY TO THE NORTHERN END OF LAKE GEORGE NEAR TICONDEROGA. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST ABOUT 35 MPH. BOATERS SHOULD HEAD FOR SHORE AT THE FIRST SIGN .OF THREATENING WEATHER. THESE STORMS CONTAIN DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS. ALSO...THESE STORMS MAY CAUSE STREAMS TO QUICKLY RISE. STAY AWAY FROM STREAMS. KILPATRICK
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 4:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
NYZ033-043-043-222115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 415 PM EDT FRI JUL 22 1994 ...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING THROUGH THE EASTERM ADIRONDACKS. AT 415 PM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED NORTHEASTWARD FROM NEAR HOPE IN HAMILTON COUNTY TO THE NORTHERN END OF LAKE GEORGE NEAR TICONDEROGA. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST ABOUT 35 MPH. BOATERS SHOULD HEAD FOR SHORE AT THE FIRST SIGN OF THREATENING WEATHER. THESE STORMS CONTAIN DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS. ALSO...THESE STORMS MAY CAUSE STREAMS TO QUICKLY RISE. STAY AWAY FROM STREAMS. KILPATRICK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Warren | 31 min |
| Jul 22, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Washington | 30 min |
| Jul 22, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer | 35 min |
| Jul 22, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Bennington | 45 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.