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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Albany, NY

July 11, 1995Rensselaer County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1995, 4:42 PM EDT for Rensselaer County, New York. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 11, 1995, 4:42 PM EDT (20:42 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 1995, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Rensselaer County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 26 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: 118 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 888 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KALB 112042 RRA
SVRALB
NYC083-112130-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
442 PM EDT TUE JUL 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST NEW YORK
 
   ...RENSSELAER COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS IN RENSSELAER COUNTY NEAR SCHODACK CENTER AT
440 PM. IT WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REACH NASSAU AT
500 PM AND EAST NASSAU AT 510 PM.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE4 IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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 11, 2:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP F
0248PM     TUE JUL 11 1995
FGCO WLSR QHQT QTRF WAPT APTS
02235    FILE 28   GREENE COUNTY SO NY0190000        JUL 11-95
TO       NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
         ATTENTION SEMO DUTY OFFICER
                   HAIL STORM

DETAILS CONCERNING EVENT: LARGE HAIL SIZE OF QUARTERS WITH THUNDERSTORM

COUNTY(S) AFFECTED: GREENE

LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD): TOWN OF HUNTER,VILL OF TANNERSVILLE
STATE RTE 23A
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: 07/11/95 AT APPROX 1425HRS
DATE AND TIME CONDITION ENDED:
EXTENT OF DAMAGE OR AREAS IN DANGER: TOWN OF HUNTER

NUMBER KILLED:          NUMBER INJURED:
REMARKS:

AUTH PHONE #: 518 943-2515
AUTH BOB DARLING EMER PREPAREDNOUS           LACKIE/2-47PM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 11, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Greene, Ulster	50 min
Jul 11, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Ulster	55 min
Jul 11, 3:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Ulster	55 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.