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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Albany, NY

August 3, 1995Fulton County, Saratoga County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1995, 9:25 PM EDT for Fulton County, Saratoga County, New York. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 3, 1995, 9:25 PM EDT (01:25 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 1995, 10:25 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Fulton County, NY, Saratoga County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 53 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KALB 040124 RRA
SVRALB
NYC035-091-040225-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
925 PM EDT THU AUG 3 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 10:25 PM
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S...


IN EASTERN NEW YORK
...FULTON COUNTY...SARATOGA COUNTY...

AT  9:25 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT  5 MILES EAST OF
GLOVERSVILLE...NEAR PERTH IN SOUTHEASTERN FULTON COUNTY.

AT  9:40 PM THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT  8 MILES NORTHEAST OF
AMSTERDAM...NEAR WEST GALWAY.
.
AT  9:55 PM THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT  10 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF SARATOGA SPRINGS...NEAR HARMONY CORNERS IN CENTRAL SARATOGA COUNTY.

AT 10:10 PM THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT  5 MILES NORTH OF
CLIFTON PARK...NEAR MALTA IN SOUTHERN SARATOGA COUNTY.

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...ZMAY FLOOD.
DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.


| 43.03 74.21 | 43.01 74.07 | 43.00 73.93 | 42.98 73.80 | 42.96 73.66

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, 5 hours 32 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, 5 hours 31 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, 2 hours 29 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, 2 hours 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, 1 hour 56 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, 8:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Washington	55 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

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.