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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Albany, NY

May 29, 1995Hamilton County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1995, 2:45 PM EDT for Hamilton County, New York. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 1995, 2:45 PM EDT (18:45 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1995, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Hamilton County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 1995-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 303 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
488 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
303 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
366 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, May 29, 10:18 AM EDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066-MAZ001-VTZ013-014-CTZ001-
292200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NEW YORK
1020 AM EDT MON MAY 29 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS EASTERN NEW YORK AND
WESTERN NEW ENGLAND THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE ACROSS CENTRAL NEW YORK EARLY THIS
AFTERNOON AND SPREAD INTO WESTERN NEW ENGLAND BY LATE AFTERNOON.  A
FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE...PRODUCING STRONG WIND IN EXCESS OF
60 MPH...AND LARGE HAIL.

IF YOU/RE PLANNING ANY OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES TODAY...YOU SHOULD PAY
CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER.  BE ALERT FOR THREATENING CONDITIONS
AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE QUICKLY.  BOATERS SHOULD BE
PARTICULARLY WATCHFUL.  TAKE A PORTABLE RADIO ALONG WITH YOU SO THAT
YOU CAN KEEP UP WITH THE LATEST FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL BRING WARM...HUMID AIR INTO
THE REGION TODAY.  A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING SETTING OFF THUNDERSTORMS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 2:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHamilton54 min
May 29, 3:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWashington62 min
May 29, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYSchenectady28 min
May 29, 5:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYUlster55 min
May 29, 5:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYGreene63 min
May 29, 5:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYRensselaer49 min
May 29, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYDutchess61 min
May 29, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia64 min
May 29, 6:38 PM EDTTornado WarningALYColumbia67 min
May 29, 6:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYUlster60 min
May 29, 7:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia62 min
May 29, 7:45 PM EDTTornado WarningALYDutchess, Ulster60 min
May 29, 6:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYBerkshire69 min
May 29, 7:08 PM EDTTornado WarningALYBerkshire67 min
May 29, 7:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYNorthwest Hills Planning Region54 min
May 29, 7:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYNorthwest Hills Planning Region64 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.