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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Albany, NY

June 6, 1997Herkimer County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1997, 6:04 PM EDT for Herkimer County, New York. It was in force for 56 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: Jun 6, 1997, 6:04 PM EDT (22:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1997, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Herkimer County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 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-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: 732 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 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 062205
SVRALB
NYC043-062300-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
604 PM EDT FRI JUN 6 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL NEW YORK
 
   ...NORTHERN HERKIMER COUNTY
 
A THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL WAS NEARLY STATIONARY OVER THE
NORTHWESTERN CORNER OF THE COUNTY JUST TO THE NORTH OF STILLWATER
RESEVOIR AND WEST OF CROOKED LAKE.
 
ANYONE CAMPING IN EXTREME NORTHERN HERKIMER COUNTY SHOULD SEE SHELTER
FROM THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IMMEDIATELY.

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, Jun 6, 4:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP C
0414PM     FRI JUN 06 1997
CDSO WLSR WHQT KFAA QTRF QHQT APTS WAPT
01235    FILE 25   DELAWARE CO SO DELHI NY0120000      JUN 06-97
TO       STATE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICE (SEMO) - ATTN DUTY OFFICER
         COPY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE (NWS)
         COPY FAA JFK AIRPORT - FOR SECURITY & FLIGHT STANDARDS DIVISION
                   REPORT OF AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT

COUNTY WHERE CRASH OCCURRED: DELAWARE

(X) - ACTUAL ACCIDENT
( ) - SUSPECTED CRASH

AIRCRAFT REGISTRATION NUMBER: UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME AIRCRAFT BURNED

NAME OF OWNER: UNKOWN AT THIS TIME

TYPE OF AIRCRAFT: UNKOWN AT THIS TIME

EXACT LOCATION OF CRASH: INTERSECTION OF NYS ROUTE 206 & TROUT BROOK ROAD

NUMBER OF PERSONS ON BOARD: AT LEAST 3 KNOWN

NUMBER OF FATALITIES: NONE KNOWN AT THIS TIME

NUMBER OF INJURED: AT LEAST 3

DAMAGE RESULTING FROM CRASH: PLANE DEMOLISHED & BURNED

CAUSE OF CRASH IF KNOWN: UNKOWN AT THIS TIME

REMARKS: WALTON FIRE & EMS ON SCENE SHERIFF'S DEPT (DELAWARE COUNTY)
NYSP,NYS FOREST RANAGERS,ENCON OFFICER APPROX TIME OF CRASH 1500HRS
ALBANY FAA ADVISED AT 518-785-5660 EXT h218 MR NEWBAURER

TELEPHONE NUMBER OF AUTH: 607 746-2336

AUTH SHERIFF PAUL PETERSON                       SGT AVERY/4-10 PM

OPER - AVERY,THOMAS D                 1613

Nearby

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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.