Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Albany, NY

May 11, 1996Dutchess County, New York; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1996, 5:58 PM EDT for Dutchess County, New York; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 62 min. 2 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: May 11, 1996, 5:58 PM EDT (21:58 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 1996, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Dutchess County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 11, 6:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Hyde Park, NY
May 11, 6:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Millbrook, 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

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 11, 5:49 PM EDT, 9 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP F
0549PM     SAT MAY 11 1996
FCSD WLSR QHQT QTRF APTS WAPT
01093    FILE 28   ORANGE COUNTY SO NY0350003                MAY 11-96
TO       NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
         ATTENTION SEMO DUTY OFFICER

                              TORNADO REPORT

COUNTY(S) AFFECTED: ORANGE

CHECK ONE OR MORE AS APPROPRIATE:
( ) - REPORT BASED UPON DAMAGE
(X) - FUNNEL CLOUD ACTUALLY SIGHTED (SEND ADDED INFO MESSAGE)
( ) - WATER SPOUT ACTUALLY SIGHTED (SEND ADDED INFO MESSAGE)
LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD): TOWN OF GOSHEN AND TOWN OF
HAMPTONBURGH
NAME AND ADDRESS OF PERSON(S) REPORTING TORNADO(S): DOMINIC GREENE
ORANGE COUNTY EMO

DATE AND TIME OF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN: 051196 1731HRS
PLACE OF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN: BETWEEN FLORIDA AND GOSHEN / STONY FORD GOLF COURSE
DIRECTION OF TORNADO TRAVEL: NORTH EAST
ESTIMATED WIDTH OF TORNADO AT GROUND: UNK
ESTIMATED LENGTH OF TORNADO PATH: UNK
PLACE OF TORNADO LIFTOFF: UNK
DAMAGE REPORTED TO (CHECK): ( )-CROPS       ( )-FARM BLDGS
( )-POWER/TELCO LINES ( )-POWER/TELCO POLES ( )-SMALL TREES
( )-LARGE TREES       ( )-PRIVATE HOMES     ( )-COMM. BLDGS
( )-OTHER (SPECIFY) UNK AT THIS TIME

NUMBER OF FATALITIES: UNK        NUMBER OF INJURED: UNK
REMARKS:

AUTH PHONE #: 914 294-7422

AUTH DOMINICK GREENE, ASST. DIRECTOR ORANGE EMO     SGT HAAS/05:50PM

OPER - HAAS,GEORGE R                  1749

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 11, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Ulster	46 min
May 11, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess	49 min
May 11, 6:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie	13 hr
May 11, 6:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Ulster	13 hr
May 11, 6:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Fulton	13 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1996 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.