Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Albany, NY

August 31, 1995Berkshire County, Massachusetts; Columbia County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 1995, 5:35 PM EDT for Berkshire County, Massachusetts; Columbia County, New York. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 31, 1995, 5:35 PM EDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired
Aug 31, 1995, 6:36 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Berkshire County, MA, Columbia County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 54 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KALB 312136 RRA
SVRALB
MAC003-NYC021-312235-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
535 PM EDT THU AUG 31 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
 
   ...BERKSHIRE COUNTY
 
 
IN EASTERN NEW YORK
 
   ...EXTREME NORTHERN COLUMBIA COUNTY
 
AT 5:35 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS WAS ABOUT
10 MILES WEST OF NASSAU...NEAR CASTLETON IN SOUTHWESTERN
RENSSELAER COUNTY.  AT 514 PM...THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED A WIND
GUST OF 63 MPH AT THE ALBANY COUNTY AIRPORT.
 
AT  5:45 PM THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
NASSAU...NEAR EAST NASSAU IN SOUTHERN RENSSELAER COUNTY.
 
AT  6:00 PM THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT 3 MILES WEST OF
PITTSFIELD...NEAR PITTSFIELD IN NORTHWESTERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
 
IF YOU LIVE IN THIS AREA - BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IN
A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM - AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
TORRENTIAL RAIN AND FLOODING MAY ALSO OCCUR WITH THIS STORM.
POORLY DRAINED LOW AREAS...SUCH AS UNDERPASSES...MAY FLOOD.
DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAtS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
JC/NWSFO ALBANY

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, 4:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYSchenectady65 min
Aug 31, 4:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYAlbany64 min
Aug 31, 5:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYRensselaer59 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.