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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Albany, NY

July 3, 1997Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1997, 4:49 PM EDT for Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont. It was in force for 86 min. 3 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: Jul 3, 1997, 4:49 PM EDT (20:49 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 1997, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 86 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jul 3, 6:05 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Westminster, VT
Jul 3, 6:05 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Rockingham, VT
Jul 3, 6:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellows Falls, VT

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
Jul 3, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 84 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: 901 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 598 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KALB 032050 RRA
SVRALB
VTC003-025-032215-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
449 PM EDT THU JUL 3 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHERN VERMONT
 
   ...BENNINGTON COUNTY...WINDHAM COUNTY
 
 
AT 450 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF ARLINGTON.
 
THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE NEAR -
 
ARLINGTON AT  500 PM.
5 MILES SOUTH OF MANCHESTER AT  515 PM.
5 MILES NORTH OF STRATTON AT  525 PM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WTATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
BLAES /NWSFO ALY

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.