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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Albany, NY

April 22, 1996Rensselaer County, Saratoga County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1996, 7:19 PM EDT for Rensselaer County, Saratoga County, New York. It was in force for 56 min. 7 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 22, 1996, 7:19 PM EDT (23:19 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 1996, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Apr 22, 7:28 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Galway, NY
Apr 22, 7:28 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Milton Center, NY
Apr 22, 7:28 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Town Of Providence, NY
Apr 22, 8:00 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Buskirk, NY
Apr 22, 8:03 PM EDT	Hail 1	Defreestville, NY
Apr 22, 8:03 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Defreestville, NY
Apr 22, 8:05 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Wynantskill, NY

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 237 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 237 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 222319 RRA
SVRALB
NYC083-091-230015-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
719 PM EDT MON APR 22 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST NEW YORK
 
   ...RENSSELAER COUNTY...SOUTHERN SARATOGA COUNTY
 
 
AT 7:15 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF
SCHENECTADY...NEAR KOMAR PARK IN SOUTHERN SARATOGA COUNTY.
 
AT  7:30 PM THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT  2 MILES EAST OF
CLIFTON PARK...NEAR USHERS IN SOUTHERN SARATOGA COUNTY.
 
AT  7:45 PM THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF
TROY...NEAR TOMHANNOCK IN NORTHERN RENSSELAER COUNTY.
 
AT  8:00 PM THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT  5 MILES NORTH OF
PETERSBURG...NEAR NORTH PETERSBURG IN NORTHEASTERN RENSSELAER 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 THIS STORM.
PO6ORLY DRAINED LOW AREAS...SUCH AS UNDERPASSES...MAY FLOOD.
DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 
 42.90 73.93  42.87 73.73  42.85 73.54  42.82 73.34  42.80 73.15

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Montgomery, Schenectady	65 min
Apr 22, 7:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Schoharie	49 min
Apr 22, 7:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Schenectady	61 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.