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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Albany, NY

August 31, 1995Schenectady County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 1995, 4:40 PM EDT for Schenectady County, New York. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 31, 1995, 4:40 PM EDT (20:40 UTC)
Expired
Aug 31, 1995, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Schenectady County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 23 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 1995-08-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-08-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 189 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2140 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
250 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 31, 3:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHerkimer60 min
Aug 31, 4:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYMontgomery60 min
Aug 31, 4:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYAlbany64 min
Aug 31, 5:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYRensselaer59 min
Aug 31, 5:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia61 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.