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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Albany, NY

July 9, 1997Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut; Dutchess County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1997, 2:47 PM EDT for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut; Dutchess County, New York. It was in force for 58 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: Jul 9, 1997, 2:47 PM EDT (18:47 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 1997, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Dutchess County, NY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 9, 2:50 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Poughkeepsie, NY
Jul 9, 2:55 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Hyde Park, 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
Jul 9, 1:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 1101 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 936 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KALB 091849 RRA
SVRALB
CTC005-NYC027-091945-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
247 PM EDT WED JUL 9 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT
 
   ...LITCHFIELD COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK
   ...DUTCHESS COUNTY
 
AT 245 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FRON THE
NORTHWEST CORNER OF CONNECTICUT TO NEAR POUGHKEEPSIE.
 
THESE STORMS WERE MOVVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL
REACH A LINE FROM PAWLING IN DUTCHESS COUNTY TO TORRINGTON IN LITCHFIELD
COUNTY BETWEEN 320 AND 330 PM.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
 
KL/HTS

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, Jul 9, 1:53 PM EDT, 54 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP F
0155PM     WED JUL 09 1997
FLPD WLSR APTS FULC FHIG
00878    FILE 28   TOWN OF LLOYD PD NY0555600                JUL 09-97
TO       ATTN SURROUNDING AGENCIES

         ************  R O A D        C L O S E D  **************

THE FOLLOWING ROAD WILL BE CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO A TRACTOR-

TRAILER VS NUMEROUS POLES/WIRES.  NORTH ROAD WILL BE CLOSED AT INTERSECTION

OF MAIN & NORTH RD TO INTERSECTION OF NORTH RD & GRAND ST.

CENTRAL HUDSON ON SCENE AT THIS TIME / PLEASE ADVISE ALL PERSONS NECESSARY

AUTH SGT SARGENT,W                               THOMAS 1354 HRS
OPER - THOMAS,MICHAEL J               1355

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	45 min
Jul 9, 6:13 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	2 hr
Jul 9, 2:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia	44 min
Jul 9, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer	51 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 1997 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.