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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Albany, NY

July 28, 1995Greene County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1995, 7:22 PM EDT for Greene County, New York. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 28, 1995, 7:22 PM EDT (23:22 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 1995, 8:10 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Greene County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 52 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: 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KALB 282323 RRA
SVRALB
NYC039-290010-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
722 PM EDT THU JUL 28 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  8:10 PM
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S...


IN EASTERN NEW YORK
EASTERN GREENE COUNTY...

AT  7:20 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST SOUTH OF
CATSKILL.

AT  7:35 PM THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE JUST NORTHWEST OF
HUDSON.
.
AT  7:50 PM THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT  7 MILES NORTH OF
HUDSON...NEAR COXSACKIE IN EASTERN GREENE COUNTY.

THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTH...GENERALLY IN THE AREA BETWEEN THE
NEW YORK STATE THRUWAY AND HUDSON RIVER.

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 THIS STORM.
POORLY DRAINED LOW AREAS...SUCH AS UNDERPASSES...MAY FLOOD.
DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.


| 42.18 73.89 | 42.27 73.84 | 42.36 73.80 | 42.44 73.76 | 42.53 73.72

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Saratoga	58 min
Jul 28, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Warren	58 min
Jul 28, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Hamilton	66 min
Jul 28, 6:46 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Saratoga	94 min
Jul 28, 6:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga	94 min
Jul 28, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Ulster	60 min
Jul 28, 7:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Rensselaer	36 min

Nearby

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.