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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Albany, NY

July 15, 1995Schoharie County, New York

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 1995-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1585 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 1995-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 108 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 5:11 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHamilton, Herkimer79 min
Jul 15, 6:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYFulton, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady, Warren90 min
Jul 15, 6:25 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWashington65 min
Jul 15, 6:33 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYAlbany, Greene, Rensselaer57 min
Jul 15, 6:51 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia, Dutchess60 min
Jul 15, 7:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYDutchess90 min
Jul 15, 7:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYUlster90 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.