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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Albany, NY

May 29, 1995Dutchess County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1995, 8:39 PM EDT for Dutchess County, New York. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 29, 1995, 8:39 PM EDT (00:39 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 1995, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Dutchess County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 103 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 215 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1037 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.5

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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

Special weather statement, May 29, 3:54 PM EDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before

NYZ032-292100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
355 PM EDT MON MAY 29 1995

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 498 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT IN
NORTHERN HERKIMER COUNTY.

Local storm report, May 29, 6:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP G
0625PM     MON MAY 29 1995
GBES WLSR QHQT QTRF APTS WAPT
00083    FILE 28   RENS COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICES     MAY 29-95
TO       NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
         COPY SEMO DUTY OFFICER
                   THUNDERSTORM/HIGH WIND REPORT

COUNTY(S) AFFECTED: RENSSELAER

LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD): POESTENKILL PLANK RD
BERLIN MAIN STREET
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: MAY 29 1995 1800HRS
EXTENT OF DAMAGE OR AREAS IN DANGER:

CHECK ONE:
HAIL SIZE REPORTED
(X) - NO HAIL REPORTED    ( ) - LESS THAN 1/2" (PEA)
( ) - 1/2" (MARBLE)       ( ) - 1/2" TO 3/4" (PENNY)
( ) - 3/4" TO 1" (DIME)   ( ) - 1.25" (HALF DOLLAR)
( ) - 1.50" (WALNUT)      ( ) - 1.75" (GOLFBALL)
( ) - 2.00" (HENS EGG)    ( ) - 2.50" (TENNISBALL)
( ) - 2.75" (BASEBALL)    ( ) - 3.00" (TEA CUP)
( ) - 4.00" (GRAPEFRUIT)  ( ) - 4.50" (SOFTBALL)
NUMBER KILLED:          NUMBER INJURED:

CHECK ONE OR MORE AS APPLICABLE:
LIGHTNING REPORTED AS ( ) - CLOUD TO CLOUD  (X) - CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING DAMAGE TO:            ( ) - TREES
(X) - POWER/TELCO POLES   ( ) - POWER/TELCO LINES
( ) - COMM. BUILDINGS     ( ) - PRIVATE HOMES
( ) - OUT/FARM BUILDINGS  ( ) - CROPS
NUMBER KILLED:          NUMBER INJURED:

CHECK ONE OR MORE AS APPLICABLE:
HIGH WIND/T'STORM WIND DAMAGE   ( ) - CROPS
(X) - SMALL TREES/SHRUBS  ( ) - LARGE TREES
( ) - COMM. BUILDINGS     ( ) - PRIVATE HOMES
( ) - OUT/FARM BUILDINGS  (X) - POWER/TELCO POLES
(X) - POWER/TELCO LINES

RELIABLE WIND SPEED REPORTS:     MPH OR    KNOTS
NUMBER KILLED:          NUMBER INJURED:

FLOODING (IF EXTENSIVE, SEND SEPARATE FLOOD MESSAGE FROM MENU)
( ) - STORM SEWER OVERFLOWS, UNDERPASSES, STREET FLOODING
( ) - LOCAL SMALL CREEKS OVERFLOWING
( ) - STREAMS AND LARGE CREEKS FLOODING (COMPLETE REMARKS W/DAMAGE

REMARKS: REPORT OF WIRES DOWN TOWN OF POESTENKILL AND TOWNn OF BERLIN
NUMEROUS LOCATIONS IN THESE TOWNS ARE BEING REPORTED AT THIS TIME TREES
AND WIRES DOWN
AUTH PHONE #: 518 270-5252

AUTH DAVID COOK DIRECTOR BES                   DRESCHER  1821 HRS

Local storm report, May 29, 7:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 8:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.