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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Albany, NY

April 20, 1996Herkimer County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 1996, 9:33 PM EDT for Herkimer County, New York. It was in force for 57 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
Apr 20, 1996, 9:33 PM EDT (01:33 UTC)
Expired
Apr 20, 1996, 10:30 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Herkimer County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 123 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 00:00Z on 1996-04-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 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 00:00Z on 1996-04-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 258 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-118 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
968 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
258 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
299 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 20, 10:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYFulton, Montgomery, Saratoga60 min
Apr 20, 10:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWarren60 min
Apr 20, 10:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHerkimer31 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.