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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Albany, NY

May 19, 1997Dutchess County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1997, 10:20 PM EDT for Dutchess County, New York. It was in force for 50 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, 10:20 PM EDT (02:20 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1997, 11:10 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Dutchess County, NY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 19, 10:37 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Poughkeepsie, NY
May 19, 10:40 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Hyde Park, NY	During the late evening hours of May 19, a cold front initiated several severe thunderstorms across the Mid-Hudson Valley of eastern New York. Trees were downed by the wind in Ulster and Dutchess Counties. Scattered power outages also occurred when trees kno

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, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 103 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

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

549 
WUUS1 KALB 200222 RRA
SVRALB
NYC027-200310-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1020 PM EDT MON MAY 19 1997
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR

DUTCHESS    COUNTY -  IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK

UNTIL 1110 PM EDT

AT 1020 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF TILLSON.

THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST ABOUT 50 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE NEAR -

5 MILES SOUTH OF PORT EWEN AT 1025 PM.
5 MILES SOUTH OF RHINEBECK AT 1030 PM.
7 MILES NORTH OF MILLBROOK AT 1035 PM.
5 MILES SOUTH OF PINE PLAINS AT 1040 PM.
5 MILES NORTHWEST OF AMENIA AT 1045 PM.
MILLERTON AT 1050 PM.
FALLS VILLAGE AT 1100 PM.

THIS STORM WAS PART OF A NORTH-SOUTH LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WILL CROSS
 THE COUNTY BETWEEN 1030 AND 1115PM

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

TORRENTIAL RAIN AND FLOODING MAY ALSO OCCUR WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.


|41.820  74.028 |41.869  73.783 |41.918  73.538 |41.967  73.293 |42.015  73.048

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 42 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, 9:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Ulster	54 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.