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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Albany, NY

August 27, 1996Saratoga County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 1996, 5:39 PM EDT for Saratoga County, New York. It was in force for 66 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
Aug 27, 1996, 5:39 PM EDT (21:39 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 1996, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Saratoga County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 46 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 1996-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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 1996-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
939 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Aug 27, 1:47 PM EDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
147 PM EDT TUE AUG 27 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....h

0120 PM    PITTSFIELD                MA   1 INCH HAIL
08/27/96   BERKSHIRE                      QUARTER SIZED HAIL
                                          IN PITTSFIELD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 27, 7:05 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYHamilton5 hr
Aug 27, 2:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYNorthwest Hills Planning Region61 min
Aug 27, 2:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYBennington48 min

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.