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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Albany, NY

April 23, 1996Rensselaer County, Washington County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1996, 3:28 PM EDT for Rensselaer County, Washington County, New York. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 23, 1996, 3:28 PM EDT (19:28 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 1996, 4:05 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Rensselaer County, NY, Washington County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 46 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: 566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 180 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 231929
SVRALB
NYC083-115-232005-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
328 PM EDT TUE APR 23 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  4:05 PM
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S...


IN EASTERN NEW YORK
...RENSSELAER COUNTY...WASHINGTON COUNTY...

AT  3:25 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT  5 MILES EAST OF
CLIFTON PARK...NEAR MECHANICVILLE A IN SOUTHERN SARATOGA COUNTY.

AT  3:40 PM THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT  6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
CAMBRIDGE...NEAR SOUTH CAMBRIDGE IN SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY.
.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR CAMBRIDGE ABOUT 345 PM.

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.
POORLY DRAINED LOW AREAS...SUCH AS UNDERPASSES...MAY FLOOD.
DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.


| 42.88 73.70 | 42.97 73.48 | 43.06 73.26 | 43.16 73.04 | 43.25 72.82

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 8:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer	40 min
Apr 22, 9:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton	53 min
Apr 23, 2:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Herkimer	44 min
Apr 23, 2:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton	57 min
Apr 23, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga	29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.