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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Albany, NY

July 9, 1996Washington County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1996, 4:14 PM EDT for Washington County, New York. It was in force for 61 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: Jul 9, 1996, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 1996, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Washington County, NY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 9, 4:30 PM EDT	Hail 1	Easton, NY
Jul 9, 4:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Easton, 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 77 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: 1775 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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

Special weather statement, Jul 9, 10:21 AM EDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 9, 12:41 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP W
1241PM     TUE JUL 09 1996
WDTC WLSR GENC WHQT QHQT QTRF
00013    FILE 28   DC DEPT OF EMERG RESPONSE NYSEM131H       JUL 09-96
TO       NYS DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION - BUREAU OF OIL SPILLS
         COPY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE - STATE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICE
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
REGION: _________                                   SPILL NO. ________
REPORTER'S NAME: SPIERS, JAMES
REPORTING AGENCY: DUTCHESS CO. DEPT. OF EMERGENCY RESPONSE
PHONE NUMBER: 914-471-1414
   EXT.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SPILL DATE: 07/09/96  TIME: 10:02 A.M.
      PETROLEUM SPILLED                   MATERIAL CLASS
[ ]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   |
[X]5-DIESEL      [ ]11-UNKNOWN    |
[ ]6-JET FUEL                     |

OTHER MATERIAL SPILLED: 1/2 GAL. BRAKE FLUID
QUANTITY SPILLED: 15 GALLONS DIESEL
IS THIS A SARA TITLE III/CERCLA NOTIFICATION? [ ]-YES [ ]-NO
IF TANK FAILURE: TANK SIZE           GAL.   TEST METHOD
                         LEAK RATE
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
         SPILL LOCATION                        SPILLER (IF DIFFERENT)
PLACE: JACKSON RD NEAR DC AIRPORT      |NAME: MAT ENTERPRISES
STREET/ROAD: JACKSON RD                |STREET: P.O. BOX 277
MUNICIPALITY: WAPPINGERS               |CITY/STATE/ZIP: GARNERVILLE,NY 10923
COUNTY: DUTCHESS                       |CONTACT PERSON:
CONTACT PERSON: ASST.CHIEF MIHANS      |PHONE:
PHONE: (914)297-3897
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                SPILL CAUSE
1. [ ] - HUMAN ERROR                    7. [ ] - DELIBERATE
2. [X] - TRAFFIC ACCIDENT               8. [ ] - ABAND. DRUMS
3. [ ] - 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
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   RESOURCE AFFECTED              YOUR AGENCY TYPE
1. [X] - ON LAND                  3. [ ] - POLICE DEPARTMENT
2. [ ] - IN SEWER                10. [ ] - FEDERAL GOV'T.
3. [ ] - GROUND WATER            11. [X] - OTHER FIRE CONTROL CENTER
4. [ ] - SURFACE WATER
5. [ ] - AIR
WATERBODY AFFECTED:
REMARKS: FIRE DEPT. REPORTS THEY PICKED UP SPILLED PRODUCTS WITH SPEEDY DRY AND
BAGGED FOR DISPOSAL.  PLEASE CALL DUTCHESS FIRE CONTROL (914)471-1414 OR FAX
AT (914)486-3997 AT YOUR CONVENIENCE WITH SPILL NUMBER - REF. ALARM # 13830NK.

AUTH TRAVER, JUDIE
OPER - SPIERS,JAMJES                   1240

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 12:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia	55 min
Jul 9, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess, Ulster	53 min
Jul 9, 6:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	63 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.