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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Albany, NY

May 29, 1995Dutchess County, Ulster County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this tornado warning at May 29, 1995, 7:45 PM EDT for Dutchess County, Ulster County, New York. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 1995, 7:45 PM EDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1995, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Dutchess County, NY, Ulster County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 292348
TORALB
NYC027-111-300045-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
745 PM EDT MON MAY 29 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK
 
   ...DUTCHESS COUNTY...ULSTER COUNTY
 
 
AT 7:40 PM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADIC
THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 4 MILES WEST OF KINGSTON NEAR HURLEY
IN CENTRAL ULSTER COUNTY.
 
AT  7:55 PM...THIS STORM WILL BE ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF
KINGSTON NEAR WURTEMBURG IN NORTHWESTERN DUTCHESS COUNTY.
 
AT  8:10 PM...THIS STORM WILL BE ABOUT 17 MILES EAST OF
KINGSTON NEAR MCINTYRE IN NORTHERN DUTCHESS COUNTY.
 
TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!  TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN
THE VICINITY OF ULSTER AND DUTCHESS COUNTIES DURING THE
LAST TWO HOURS.
 
TORRENTIAL RAIN AND FLOODING MAY ALSO OCCUR WITH SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS.  DO NOT DRIVE INTOd 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, 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, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYSchenectady28 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

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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.