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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Albany, NY

February 22, 1997Schenectady County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 1997, 12:38 PM EST for Schenectady County, New York. It was in force for 67 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: Feb 22, 1997, 12:38 PM EST (17:38 UTC)
Expired: Feb 22, 1997, 1:45 PM EST
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Schenectady County, NY

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Feb 22, 10:30 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 23 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: 81 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1001 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KALB 221737 RRA
SVRALB
NYC093-221845-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1238 PM EST SAT FEB 22 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EASTERN NEW YORK
 
   ...SCHENECTADY COUNTY
 
AT 1240 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM NEAR DUANESBURG AND DELANSON IN SCHOHARIE COUNTY. THIS
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH AND WILL REACH
PATTERSONVILLE AND SCOTIA AROUND 1250 PM.
 
THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
 
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 WjATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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, Feb 22, 11:30 AM EST, 1 hour 8 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP E
1130AM     SAT FEB 22 1997
EHQT WLSR QHQT QTRF WAPT APTS
01759    FILE 28   SP CANANDAIGUA NY1340100                  FEB 22-97
TO       NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
         ATTENTION SEMO DUTY OFFICER

                   HIGH WINDS

DETAILS CONCERNING EVENT: EXPERIENCING STRONG WINDS THROUGHOUT THE
                          TROOP "E" AREA

COUNTY(S) AFFECTED: MONROE,ONTARIO,WAYNE,SENECA,LIVINGSTON,CHEMUNG,
                    SCHUYLER,YATES,CAYUGA AND STEUBEN COUNTIES

DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: 022297 9-00 AM

EXTENT OF DAMAGE OR AREAS IN DANGER: NUMEROUS TREES AND WIRES DOWN
                                     AND SOME POWER OUTAGES
                                     HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT AND UTILITY CREWS
                                     WORKING

AUTH PHONE #: 716 398-3200

AUTH - LT JOHN FAY

OPER - HUGHSON, HOWARD L              1130

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 22, 10:47 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	58 min
Feb 22, 11:32 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Montgomery	58 min
Feb 22, 12:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Schoharie	63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.