Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1996, 9:15 PM EDT for Rensselaer County, New York. It was in force for 60 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, 9:15 PM EDT (01:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1996, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rensselaer County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 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, 10:02 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Rensselaer, 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 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 26 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1360 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1133 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, 7:15 PM EDT, 2 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
715 PM EDT WED JUN 12 1996
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0706 PM GLOVERSVILLE NY WIND DAMAGE
06/12/96 FULTON TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN
IN GLOVERSVILLESpecial weather statement, Jun 12, 8:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066-VTZ013-014-130200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 800 PM EDT JUN 13 1996 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES FOR MUCH EASTERN NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN VERMONT HAVE EXPIRED... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES NUMBER 594 AND 595 HAVE EXPIRED. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING IN EASTERN NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN VERMONT BUT THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS DIMINISHED. THUNDERSTORMS WILL STILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 8:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Saratoga | 50 min |
| Jun 12, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Washington | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 10:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Rensselaer | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 3:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Albany | 5 hr |
| Jun 13, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Montgomery, Schenectady | 67 min |
| Jun 13, 4:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Ulster | 5 hr |
| Jun 13, 1:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Windham | 5 hr |
| Jun 13, 5:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Windham | 5 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.