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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Albany, NY

August 3, 1995Hamilton County, Herkimer County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1995, 6:45 PM EDT for Hamilton County, Herkimer County, New York. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 3, 1995, 6:45 PM EDT (22:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 1995, 7:50 PM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 329 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 920 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 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
920 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
821 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

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

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

Local storm report, Aug 3, 3:53 PM EDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
353 PM EDT THU AUG 03 1995

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02/03/95   WARREN COUNTY
                                          NUMEROUS TREES DOWN IN THE
                                          TOWN OF ADIRONDACK- SHERIFF
                                          REPORT

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Local storm report, Aug 3, 3:54 PM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
353 PM EDT THU AUG 03 1995

 1525EDT   TOWN OF ADIRONDACK        NY   TSTM WIND
02/03/95   WARREN COUNTY
                                          NUMEROUS TREES DOWN IN THE
                                          TOWN OF ADIRONDACK- SHERIFF
                                          REPORT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWarren, Washington45 min
Aug 3, 7:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYSaratoga58 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.