Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS New York, NY

July 28, 1995Orange County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1995, 8:08 PM EDT for Orange County, New York. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 1995, 8:08 PM EDT (00:08 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1995, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Orange County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 149 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2365 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 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
2365 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1050 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
2.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KNYC 290010 RRA
SVRNYC
NYC071-290115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
808 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM EDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK
 
   ...EASTERN ORANGE COUNTY
 
AT 806 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE TOWNS OF GOSHEN AND HAMPTONBURG. THIS STORM WAS
MOVING NORTH/NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL PASS NEAR THE TOWNS OF
MAYBROOK... MONTGOMERY AND WALDEN.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 58
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
GOUDSWARD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 8:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXRockland, Westchester58 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.