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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Albany, NY

April 4, 1995Schoharie County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 1995, 12:05 PM EDT for Schoharie County, New York. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 4, 1995, 12:05 PM EDT (16:05 UTC)
Expired
Apr 4, 1995, 1:00 PM EDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Schoharie County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 51 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 1995-04-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-04-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 122 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
729 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
176 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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

Local storm report, Apr 4, 11:01 AM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP W
1100AM     TUE APR 04 1995
WORA WLSR QHQT QTRF WAPT APTS
00003    FILE 28   ORANGE CO EMERGENCY MGT OFFICE    APR 04-95
TO       NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
         ATTENTION SEMO DUTY OFFICER

ORANGE COUNTY SKYWARN NET ACTIVATED AS OF 10:45 AM THIS DATE IN

RESPONSE TO A WIND ADVISORY AND SEVERE T-STORM WATCH.

REPORTS WILL BE RECEIVED HOURLY BY SKYWARN COORD. UNLESS

CONDITIONS WARRANT MORE FREQUENT REPORTS.

REMARKS: SKIES IN THE COUNTY ARE CURRENTLY PARTLY CLOUDY
WITH PATCHES OF BLUE.

AUTH PHONE #: 914 294-7422
AUTH P. SCHMER, EMERG. COORD.                MOORE /1100

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 4, 1:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYDutchess, Ulster55 min
Apr 4, 1:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia, Rensselaer68 min
Apr 4, 1:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYBerkshire45 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.