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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Albany, NY

June 12, 1996Fulton County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1996, 7:03 PM EDT for Fulton County, New York. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report 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: Jun 12, 1996, 7:03 PM EDT (23:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 1996, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Fulton County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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
Jun 12, 7:06 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Gloversville, 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 67 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: 504 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 814 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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, Jun 12, 1:45 PM EDT, 5 hours 18 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP W
0144PM     WED JUN 12 1996
WDTC WLSR GCOL
00011    FILE 28   DC DEPT OF EMERG RESPONSE NYSEM131H       JUN 12-96
TO       NYS DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION - BUREAU OF OIL SPILLS
         COPY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE - STATE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICE
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REGION: DUTCHESS COUNTY                    SPILL NO.
REPORTING AGENCY: DUTCHESS COUNTY EMERGENCY RESPONSE
PHONE NUMBER: 914-486-2081
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SPILL DATE: 06/12/96  TIME: 09:44 A.M.
      PETROLEUM SPILLED                   MATERIAL CLASS
[X]1-GASOLINE    [ ]7-WASTE OIL   | [X]1-PETROLEIM       []4-RAW SEWAGE
[ ]2-#2 FUEL     [ ]8-NON-PCB OIL | [ ]2-NONPETRO/NONHAZ []5-UNKNOWN
[ ]3-#4 FUEL     [ ]9-PCB OIL     | [ ]3-HAZ MATERIAL
[ ]4-#6 FUEL     [ ]10-KEROSENE   |
[ ]5-DIESEL      [ ]11-UNKNOWN    |
[ ]6-JET FUEL                     |

OTHER MATERIAL SPILLED:
QUANTITY SPILLED: 20 GALLONS
IS THIS A SARA TITLE III/CERCLA NOTIFICATION? [ ]-YES [ ]-NO
IF TANK FAILURE: TANK SIZE           GAL.   TEST METHOD
                         LEAK RATE
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         SPILL LOCATION                        SPILLER (IF DIFFERENT)
PLACE: RT 9 1MILE NORTH OF I84         |NAME: CON EDISON
STREET/ROAD: RT 9                      |STREET:
MUNICIPALITY: VILLAGE OF FISHKILL      |CITY/STATE/ZIP:
COUNTY: DUTCHESS                       |CONTACT PERSON:
CONTACT PERSON:                        |PHONE:
PHONE:
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                                SPILL CAUSE
1. [ ] - HUMAN ERROR                    7. [ ] - DELIBERATE
2. [ ] - TRAFFIC ACCIDENT               8. [ ] - ABAND. DRUMS
3. [X] - EQUIP. FAILURE                 9. [ ] - TANK FAILURE
4. [ ] - VANDALISM                     10. [ ] - TANK OVERFILL
5. [ ] - TK TEST FAIL. (BULK STOR. PRO)11. [ ] - OTHER
6. [ ] - HOUSEKEEPING                  12. [ ] - UNKNOWN
                               SPILL SOURCE
1. [ ] - COMM./INDUST.                  7. [X] - COMM. VEHICLE
2. [ ] - NON COMM./INST.                8. [ ] - TANK TRUCK
3. [ ] - MAJ FAC 40,000 GAL             9. [ ] - PVT. DWELLING
4. [ ] - NON-MAJ FAC 1,100 GAL         10. [ ] - VESSEL
5. [ ] - GAS STATION                   11. [ ] - RAIL ROAD CAR
6. [ ] - PASS. VEHICLE                 12. [ ] - UNKNOWN
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   RESOURCE AFFECTED              YOUR AGENCY TYPE
1. [X] - ON LAND                  3. [ ] - POLICE DEPARTMENT
2. [ ] - IN SEWER                10. [ ] - FEDERAL GOV'T.
3. [ ] - GROUND WATER            11. [ ] - OTHER
4. [ ] - SURFACE WATER
5. [ ] - AIR
WATERBODY AFFECTED:
REMARKS: GASOLINE CONTAINED WILL BE PICKED UP BY SPILLER.
FAX SPILL #-FAX #914-486-3997

AUTH JUDIE TRAVER                           VATER 01:43 PM
ASSISTANT EMERGENCY RESPONSE COORDINATOR

OPER - VATER,LONNIE    z               1344

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 5:11 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Windham	4 hr

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.