Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1995, 5:11 AM EDT for Hamilton County, Herkimer County, New York. It was in force for 79 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 1995, 5:11 AM EDT (09:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1995, 6:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 79 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 329 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
- 3272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 979 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KALB 150913 RRA SVRALB NYC043-041-151030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 511 AM EDT SAT JUL 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL NEW YORK ...HERKIMER AND HAMILTON COUNTIES NUMEROUS OBSERVERS REPORT WIND GUSTS EXCEEDING 55 MPH IN A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH EXTENDED FROM FORT DRUM TO FULTON NEW YORK AT 505 AM. THIS LINE IS RACING EAST AT 60 MPH AND WILL ENTER NORTHERN HERKIMER AND NORTHEASTERN HAMITON COUNTIES BY 520 AM. BY 540 AM...THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM BLUE MOUNTAIN TO LITTLE FALLS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD RO"ADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. JC
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 15, 3:00 AM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066-MAZ001-VTZ013-014-CTZ001-
160000-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NEW YORK
300 AM EDT SAT JUL 15 1995
...HEAT INDEX TEMPERATURES WILL APPROACH 105 DEGREES AGAIN TODAY...
A BRIEF PERIOD OF SUNSHINE EARLY THIS MORNING WILL ALLOW
TEMPERATURES TO SOAR INTO THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 90S FROM THE MOHAWK
VALLEY...CAPITAL DISTRICT...ADJACENT WESTERN NEW ENGLAND AND POINTS
SOUTH BY LATE THIS MORNING. PARTS OF THE MID HUDSON VALLEY MAY
REACH 100 DEGREES BY THIS AFTERNOON. IN ADDITION...IT'LL BE
EXTREMELY HUMID WITH DEW POINT READINGS WELL INTO THE 70S.
THESE TWO CONDITIONS WILL ALLOW HEAT INDEX VALUES TO CLIMB ABOVE 100
DEGREES IN MANY COMMUNITIES LATE THIS MORNING AND THIS
AFTERNOON...PARTICULARLY IN THE MID HUDSON VALLEY NEAR POUGHKEEPSIE.
HEAT INDICES IN THIS RANGE CAN CAUSE SUNSTROKE...HEAT CRAMPS AND
HEAT EXHAUSTION WITH PROLONGED EXPOSURE OR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY.
HERE ARE A FEW SAFETY RULES TO TRY TO KEEP YOURSELF COOL...
DRINK PLENTY OF FLUIDS...
STAY IN AIR CONDITIONED AREAS IF POSSIBLE...
AVOID DRINKING ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES...
EXERCISE OR DO YARD WORK IN THE EARLY MORNING OR EVENING
HOURS...
STAY OUT OF THE SUN AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE...
WEAR LIGHT AND LOOSE FITTING CLOTHING...Special weather statement, Jul 15, 3:03 AM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066-MAZ001-VTZ013-014-CTZ001-
160000-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NEW YORK
300 AM EDT SAT JUL 15 1995
...HEAT INDEX TEMPERATURES WILL APPROACH 105 DEGREES AGAIN TODAY...
A BRIEF PERIOD OF SUNSHINE EARLY THIS MORNING WILL ALLOW
TEMPERATURES TO SOAR INTO THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 90S FROM THE MOHAWK
VALLEY...CAPITAL DISTRICT...ADJACENT WESTERN NEW ENGLAND AND POINTS
SOUTH BY LATE THIS MORNING. PARTS OF THE MID HUDSON VALLEY MAY
REACH 100 DEGREES BY THIS AFTERNOON. IN ADDITION...IT'LL BE
EXTREMELY HUMID WITH DEW POINT READINGS WELL INTO THE 70S.
THESE TWO CONDITIONS WILL ALLOW HEAT INDEX VALUES TO CLIMB ABOVE 100
DEGREES IN MANY COMMUNITIES LATE THIS MORNING AND THIS
AFTERNOON...PARTICULARLY IN THE MID HUDSON VALLEY NEAR POUGHKEEPSIE.
HEAT INDICES IN THIS RANGE CAN CAUSE SUNSTROKE...HEAT CRAMPS AND
HEAT EXHAUSTION WITH PROLONGED EXPOSURE OR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY.
HERE ARE A FEW SAFETY RULES TO TRY TO KEEP YOURSELF COOL...
DRINK PLENTY OF FLUIDS...
STAY IN AIR CONDITIONED AREAS IF POSSIBLE...
AVOID DRINKING ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES...
EXERCISE OR DO YARD WORK IN THE EARLY MORNING OR EVENI&NG
HOURS...
STAY OUT OF THE SUN AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE...
WEAR LIGHT AND LOOSE FITTING CLOTHING...The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 6:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady, Warren | 90 min |
| Jul 15, 6:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Schoharie | 90 min |
| Jul 15, 6:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Washington | 65 min |
| Jul 15, 6:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Greene, Rensselaer | 57 min |
| Jul 15, 6:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia, Dutchess | 60 min |
| Jul 15, 7:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 90 min |
| Jul 15, 7:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Ulster | 90 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1995Every 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.