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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Albany, NY

August 4, 1995Columbia County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1995, 3:40 PM EDT for Columbia County, New York. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 4, 1995, 3:40 PM EDT (19:40 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 1995, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Columbia County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 52 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 1995-08-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 770 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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 041939 RRA
SVRALB
NYC021-042030-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
340 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST NEW YORK
 
   ...COLUMBIA COUNTY
 
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM COLUMBIAVILLE TO NEW LEBANON
IN COLUMBIA COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL PASS OVER GHENT...BERKSHIRE SPUR
OF INTERSTATE-90...AND PHILMONT AS IT MOVES EAST THROUGH COLUMBIA
COUNTY.
.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 8:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWashington55 min
Aug 3, 9:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYFulton, Saratoga60 min
Aug 3, 10:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYRensselaer, Saratoga63 min
Aug 3, 10:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYSchenectady33 min
Aug 3, 10:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYAlbany50 min
Aug 3, 11:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYRensselaer68 min
Aug 3, 11:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYAlbany31 min
Aug 4, 2:36 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYRensselaer, Saratoga44 min
Aug 4, 2:36 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYRensselaer, Saratoga44 min
Aug 4, 2:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYAlbany, Rensselaer58 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.