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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Albany, NY

July 25, 1996Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1996, 5:30 PM EDT for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The facts

Issued
Jul 25, 1996, 5:30 PM EDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1996, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 106 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1996-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 20 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1996-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 104 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
20 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-140 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
864 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.