Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1996, 3:53 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Schenectady County, New York. It was in force for 67 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
- Jun 13, 1996, 3:53 PM EDT (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1996, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Montgomery County, NY, Schenectady County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 39 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
- 767 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 522 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 13, 3:19 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK TROOP G 0318PM THU JUN 13 1996 GASO WLSR 00807 FILE 28 ALBANY CO SHERIFFS DEPT NY0010000 JUN 13-96 TO ATTN/ GUILDERLAND PD WOLF HILL RD BETWEEN #207 WOLF HILL RD AND COUNTRYMAN RD IN IN THE TOWN OF BERNE NEAR WARNERS LAKE IS CLOSED DUE TO EXTREME FLOODING CONDITIONS. AUTH DISP C HOTALING / 3:15PM OPER - HOTALING,CHAD M 1518
Local storm report, Jun 13, 3:27 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK TROOP G 0326PM THU JUN 13 1996 GASO WLSR 00808 FILE 28 ALBANY CO SHERIFFS DEPT NY0010000 JUN 13-96 TO ATTN/ GUILDERLAND PD ROUTE 443 BETWEEN TABOR RD AND 910J IN BERNE AND ROUTES 303 AND 311 IN THE TOWN OF NEW SCOTLAND IS PASSABLE FOR EMERGENCY TRAFFIC ONLY. AUTH DISP C HOTALING / 3:27PM OPER - HOTALING,CHAD M 1526
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, 9:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer | 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, 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1996Every 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.