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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Albany, NY

May 29, 1995Berkshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Albany, NY issued this tornado warning at May 29, 1995, 7:08 PM EDT for Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 1995, 7:08 PM EDT (23:08 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1995, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Berkshire County, MA

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 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-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 292312
TORALB
MAC003-300015-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
708 PM EDT MON MAY 29 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
 
   ...BERKSHIRE COUNTY
 
 
AT 705 PM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO IN
BERKSHIRE COUNTY ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTH OF STOCKBRIDGE NEAR
SOUTH LEE.
 
AT  7:20 PM THIS STORM WILL BE ABOUT 13 MILES EAST OF
STOCKBRIDGE NEAR OTIS IN SOUTHERN 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 FLOODING MAY ALSO OCCUR WITH SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS.  DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS
THE ROAD.
 
JC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 6:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYBerkshire69 min

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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.