Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Albany, NY

May 19, 1997Ulster County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1997, 9:51 PM EDT for Ulster County, New York. It was in force for 54 min. 2 reports 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 19, 1997, 9:51 PM EDT (01:51 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1997, 10:45 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Ulster County, NY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 19, 10:10 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 54	Wallkill, NY
May 19, 10:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	New Paltz, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 19, 8:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 96 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: 68 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 552 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 250 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 296 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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, May 19, 5:38 PM EDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP A
0539PM     MON MAY 19 1997
AJAM WLSR QHQT QTRF WAPT APTS
00835    FILE 28                                     MAY 19-97
TO       NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
         ATTENTION SEMO DUTY OFFICER
                   <SPECIFY TYPE OF WEATHER OR EARTHQUAKE EVENT)

DETAILS CONCERNING EVENT: RAIN OCCURING SEVERAL TREES DOWN WIRES DOWN

COUNTY(S) AFFECTED: CHAUTAUQUA

LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD):
CITY OF JAMESTOWN SEVERAL LOCATIONS
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: 05-19-97 1700HRS
DATE AND TIME CONDITION ENDED: RAIN STOPPED AT PRESENT1735HRS
EXTENT OF DAMAGE OR AREAS IN DANGER: MINOR FLOODING  TREES DOWN ON HOUSES
WIRES DOWN
NUMBER KILLED: 0        NUMBER INJURED: 0
REMARKS: NO INJURIES REPORTED AT PRESENT

AUTH PHONE #: 716 483-7537
AUTH SGT A BOSKAT                            SENDER/TIME
OPER - BOSKAT,ARTHUR J    :            1738

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 9:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Ulster	59 min
May 19, 10:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess	50 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.