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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Albany, NY

July 28, 1995Saratoga County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1995, 6:46 PM EDT for Saratoga County, New York. It was in force for 94 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 1995, 6:46 PM EDT (22:46 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1995, 8:20 PM EDT
In force
94 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Saratoga County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 46 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 116 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
116 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 4:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYFulton, Saratoga58 min
Jul 28, 5:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWarren58 min
Jul 28, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHamilton66 min
Jul 28, 6:46 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYSaratoga94 min
Jul 28, 7:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia, Ulster60 min
Jul 28, 7:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYGreene48 min
Jul 28, 7:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia, Rensselaer36 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.