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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Albany, NY

August 3, 1995Washington County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1995, 8:10 PM EDT for Washington County, New York. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 3, 1995, 8:10 PM EDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 1995, 9:05 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Washington County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 77 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: 1927 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 660 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 7.2

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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, 4 hours 17 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

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Local storm report, Aug 3, 3:54 PM EDT, 4 hours 16 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

Local storm report, Aug 3, 6:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP G
0657PM     THU AUG 03 1995
GSGF WLSR APTS GCOS GHQT
06286    FILE 28   STATE POLICE WILTON NY1450100             AUG 03-95
TO       APB

ROAD CLOSURE DUE TO PERSONAL INJURY ACCIDENT

INTERSTATE 87 SOUTHBOUND LANE - EXIT 10 - EXIT 9

TRAFFIC BEING DETOURED EASTBOUND TO ST ROUTE 9 - SOUTH TO RTE 146
WESTBOUND TO EXIT 9 FOR RE ENTRY

UNKNOWN DUR|ATION

AUTH Z/SGT DAVID J SHEPARD           MCMILLAN    6-55PM

OPER - MCMILLAN,MAUREEN J             1856

Local storm report, Aug 3, 7:25 PM EDT, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
725 PM EDT THU AUG 3 1995

 1905EDT   EAGLE BAY                 NY   TSTM WIND
08/03/95   HERKIMER COUNTY
                                          TREES AND WIRES DOWN

 1905EDT   INLET                     NY   TSTM WIND
08/03/95   HAMILTON
                                          TREES AND WIRES DOWN

WILEY

Local storm report, Aug 3, 7:29 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
725 PM EDT THU AUG 3 1995

 1905EDT   EAGLE BAY                 NY   TSTM WIND
08/03/95   HERKIMER COUNTY
                               R           TREES AND WIRES DOWN

 1905EDT   INLET                     NY   TSTM WIND
08/03/95   HAMILTON
                                          TREES AND WIRES DOWN

WILEY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 9:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Saratoga	60 min
Aug 3, 10:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer, Saratoga	63 min
Aug 3, 10:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Schenectady	33 min
Aug 3, 10:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany	50 min
Aug 3, 11:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer	68 min
Aug 3, 11:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany	31 min
Aug 4, 2:36 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Rensselaer, Saratoga	44 min
Aug 4, 2:36 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer, Saratoga	44 min
Aug 4, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer	58 min
Aug 4, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia	50 min
Aug 4, 2:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Berkshire	56 min
Aug 4, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Berkshire	58 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.