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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Albany, NY

July 23, 1995Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut; Dutchess County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1995, 5:42 PM EDT for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut; Dutchess County, New York. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 23, 1995, 5:42 PM EDT (21:42 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 1995, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Dutchess County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 309 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 695 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KALB 232143 RRA
SVRALB
CTC005-NYC027-232245-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
542 PM EDT SUN JUL 23 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT
 
   ...SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD COUNTY
 
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN DUTCHESS COUNTY
 
 
IN NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT
...LITCHFIELD COUNTY...
 
AT  5:40 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT  4 MILES NORTHWEST OF
PAWLING...NEAR POUGHQUAG IN SOUTHERN DUTCHESS COUNTY.
 
AT  5:55 PM THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT  5 MILES NORTHEAST OF
PAWLING...NEAR QUAKER HILL IN SOUTHEASTERN DUTCHESS COUNTY.
 
AT  6:10 PM THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF
PAWLING...NEAR PARK LANE IN SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD COUNTY.
 
AT  6:25 PM THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF
WATERBURY...NEAR HOTCHKISSVILLE IN SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD COUNTY.
 
IF YOU LIVE IN THIS AREA - BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IN
A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM - AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAUSE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60
MILES AN HOUR...LARGE HAIL...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
 
TORRENTIAL RAIN AND FLOODING MAY ALSO OCCUR WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 41.61 73.66  41.60 73.52  41.59 73.38  41.58 73.24  41.57 73.09
 
 
 
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 POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSEPD.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 23, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton	42 min
Jul 23, 6:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga	40 min
Jul 23, 7:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer	52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 1995 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.