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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Albany, NY

May 9, 1997Saratoga County, Schenectady County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1997, 4:15 PM EDT for Saratoga County, Schenectady County, New York. It was in force for 40 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: May 9, 1997, 4:15 PM EDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 1997, 4:55 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 32 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: 508 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 188 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.

000 
TTAA00 KALB 092018 RRA
SVRALB
NYC091-093-092055-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
415 PM EDT FRI MAY 9 1997
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR

SARATOGA    COUNTY -  IN EASTERN NEW YORK
SCHENECTADY COUNTY -  IN EASTERN NEW YORK

UNTIL  455 PM EDT

AT  415 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF SCOTIA.

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

EAST GLENVILLE AT  420 PM.
CLIFTON PARK AT  435 PM.
MECHANICVILLE AT  440 PM.

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

TORRENTIAL RAIN AND LARGE HAIL WILL OCCUR WITH THIS STORM.


HTS

|42.861  73.971 |42.870  73.831 |42.879  73.691 |42.888  73.550 |42.897  73.410

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, May 9, 3:20 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP D
0322PM     FRI MAY 09 1997
DOSO WLSR QHQT QTRF APTS WAPT
02831    FILE 28   ONEIDA CO SO ORISKANY NY0320000           MAY 09-97
TO       NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
         COPY SEMO DUTY OFFICER
                   THUNDERSTORM/HIGH WIND REPORT

COUNTY(S) AFFECTED: ONEIDA

LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD): T/WESTERN
STOKES WESTERNVILLE RD
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: 050997 141(TIME)
EXTENT OF DAMAGE OR AREAS IN DANGER: 7 TRAILERS IN A PARK NEAR
LAKE DELTA WERE SEVERLY DAMAGED.

CHECK ONE:
HAIL SIZE REPORTED
( ) - NO HAIL REPORTED    ( ) - LESS THAN 1/2" (PEA)
( ) - 1/2" (MARBLE)       ( ) - 1/2" TO 3/4" (PENNY)
( ) - 3/4" TO 1" (DIME)   ( ) - 1.25" (HALF DOLLAR)
( ) - 1.50" (WALNUT)      ( ) - 1.75" (GOLFBALL)
( ) - 2.00" (HENS EGG)    ( ) - 2.50" (TENNISBALL)
( ) - 2.75" (BASEBALL)    ( ) - 3.00" (TEA CUP)
( ) - 4.00" (GRAPEFRUIT)  ( ) - 4.50" (SOFTBALL)
NUMBER KILLED:          NUMBER INJURED:

CHECK ONE OR MORE AS APPLICABLE:
LIGHTNING REPORTED AS (?) - CLOUD TO CLOUD  (?) - CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING DAMAGE TO:            ( ) - TREES
( ) - POWER/TELCO POLES   ( ) - POWER/TELCO LINES
( ) - COMM. BUILDINGS     ( ) - PRIVATE HOMES
( ) - OUT/FARM BUILDINGS  ( ) - CROPS
NUMBER KILLED:          NUMBER INJURED:

CHECK ONE OR MORE AS APPLICABLE:
HIGH WIND/T'STORM WIND DAMAGE   ( ) - CROPS
( ) - SMALL TREES/SHRUBS  ( ) - LARGE TREES
( ) - COMM. BUILDINGS     (X) - PRIVATE HOMES
(X) - OUT/FARM BUILDINGS  ( ) - POWER/TELCO POLES
( ) - POWER/TELCO LINES

RELIABLE WIND SPEED REPORTS:  ?  MPH OR    KNOTS
NUMBER KILLED:          NUMBER INJURED:

FLOODING (IF EXTENSIVE, SEND SEPARATE FLOOD MESSAGE FROM MENU)
( ) - STORM SEWER OVERFLOWS, UNDERPASSES, STREET FLOODING

AS REPORTED BY WESTERN FIRE DEPT (315)827-4242 TO ONEIDA CO
(315)736-0141. FD STATED HIGH WINDS IN A LOCALIZED AREA (TRAILER PARK)
OPER - ACHEN,THEODORE J               1521

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Montgomery	40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1997 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.