Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Albany, NY

May 6, 1997Montgomery County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1997, 12:11 PM EDT for Montgomery County, New York. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report 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
May 6, 1997, 12:11 PM EDT (16:11 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 1997, 12:55 PM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Montgomery County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:14 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 6, 12:16 PM EDTThunderstorm WindFonda, 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 261 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 1997-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 1997-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 198 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1042 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
198 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
203 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

589 
WUUS1 KALB 061611 RRA
SVRALB
NYC057-061655-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1211 PM EDT TUE MAY 6 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR

  MONTGOMERY  COUNTY -  IN EASTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 1255 PM EDT

* AT 1210 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF CHERRY VALLEY.

* THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE NEAR -

* AMES AT 1220 PM.
* CANAJOHARIE AT 1230 PM.
* PALATINE BRIDGE AT 1230 PM.

IF YOU LIVE IN THIS AREA - BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IN
A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM - AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

STORMS IN THIS SYSTEM HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HAIL...HIGH WIND
AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.

|42.827  74.732 |42.883  74.600 |42.940  74.468 |42.996  74.336 |43.052  74.204

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 1:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYGreene45 min
May 6, 1:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.