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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Albany, NY

May 29, 1995Schenectady County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1995, 4:47 PM EDT for Schenectady County, New York. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 1995, 4:47 PM EDT (20:47 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1995, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Schenectady County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 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 1995-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 303 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
488 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
303 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
366 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 292051 COR
SVRALB
NYC093-292115-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
447 PM EDT MON MAY 29 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN EAST NEW YORK

   ...SCHENECTADY COUNTY


AT 4:45 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF
DUANESBURG IN WESTERN SCHENECTADY COUNTY.

AT  5:00 PM THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT  5 MILES WEST OF
SCHENECTADY NEAR ROTTERDAM IN EASTERN SCHENECTADY 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.





WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

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

Special weather statement, May 29, 3:54 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
NYZ032-292100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
355 PM EDT MON MAY 29 1995

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 498 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT IN
NORTHERN HERKIMER COUNTY.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 2:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHamilton54 min
May 29, 2:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHamilton45 min
May 29, 3:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWashington62 min
May 29, 5:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYUlster55 min
May 29, 5:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYGreene63 min
May 29, 5:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYRensselaer49 min
May 29, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYDutchess61 min
May 29, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia64 min
May 29, 6:38 PM EDTTornado WarningALYColumbia67 min
May 29, 6:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYUlster60 min
May 29, 7:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia62 min
May 29, 7:45 PM EDTTornado WarningALYDutchess, Ulster60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1995Every 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.