Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1995, 6:00 AM EDT for Schoharie County, New York. It was in force for 90 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 1995, 6:00 AM EDT (10:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1995, 7:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Schoharie County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 1585 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1378 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
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 15, 3:00 AM EDT, 3 hours 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 57 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, 5:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Hamilton, Herkimer | 79 min |
| Jul 15, 6:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady, Warren | 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.