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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Albany, NY

August 4, 1995Berkshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1995, 2:29 PM EDT for Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 4, 1995, 2:29 PM EDT (18:29 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 1995, 3:25 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Berkshire County, MA

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 62 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: 770 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 761 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 25 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 041829 RRA
SVRALB
MAC003-041925-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
229 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  3:25 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S...
 
IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS

...BERKSHIRE COUNTY...
 
AT  2:25 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTH OF 
PETERSBURG...NEAR STEPHENTOWN CENTER IN SOUTHERN RENSSELAER COUNTY.
THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED DIME SIZE HAIL AT AVERILL PARK.
 
A 2:40 PM THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF 
PITTSFIELD...NEAR NORTH HANCOCK IN NORTHERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
 
AT  2:55 PM THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT  8 MILES SOUTH OF 
NORTH ADAMS...NEAR CHESHIRE HARBOR IN NORTHERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
 
AT  3:10 PM THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF 
NORTH ADAMS...NEAR BRIER IN NORTHERN BERKSHIRE 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 FLOjODING 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.

&

SNYDER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Berkshire	58 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.