Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Albany, NY

Issued

Jul 15, 1997, 2:23 PM EDT (18:23 UTC)

Expired

Jul 15, 1997, 3:30 PM EDT

In force

67 min

Issued by

NWS Albany, NY

Area

Whole counties

County Ulster County, 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.

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TTAA00 KALB 151825 RRA
SVRALB
NYC111-151930-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
223 PM EDT TUE JUL 15 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK
 
   ...EASTERN ULSTER COUNTY
 
 
AT 220 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTHEAST OF ZENA.
 
THIS STORM IS MOVING SOUTH ABOUT 10 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL
FOLLOW THE THRUWAY NEAR -
 
JUST WEST OF SAUGERTIES AT  225 PM.
LAKE KATRINE AT  240 PM.
LINCOLN PARK AT  255 PM.
KINGSTON AT  305 PM.
 
EXPECT IN EXCESS OF AN INCH OF RAINFALL WITH THESE STORMS. THIS WILL
CAUSE PONDING OF WATER IN LOW-LYING AREAS. DO NOT CROSS ROADWAYS COVERED
WITH WATER.
 
TREES HAVE BEEN REPORTED DOWN NEAR ACCORD WITH THESE STORMS
 
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.
 
 
 
GW/HTS
 
 
&

In the hours before

NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066-MAZ001-VTZ013-014-
CTZ001-160000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1042 AM EDT TUE JUL 15 1997

...THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN
AND POSSIBLE FLOODING...

A VERY WARM AND HUMID AIRMASS WILL REMAIN ACROSS EASTERN NEW YORK AND
ADJACENT WESTERN NEW ENGLAND THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AS
TEMPERATURES RISE DURING THE AFTERNOON THE ATMOSPHERE WILL
DESTABILIZE AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WILL
DEVELOP. THE THREAT OF VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL INITIALLY BE GREATEST
ACROSS THE HIGHER TERRAIN...ESPECIALLY TO THE NORTH OF ALBANY. BY
LATE AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED ACROSS MUCH OF EASTERN
NEW YORK AND ADJACENT WESTERN NEW ENGLAND.

THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
LOCALIZED AREAS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING. THESE STORMS WILL
MOVE VERY SLOWLY AND LIKELY CONTINUE TO DROP HEAVY RAIN OVER THE SAME
LOCATIONS FOR A PROLONGED PERIOD OF TIME. THE THREAT OF ISOLATED
FLOODING IS REAL BUT SHOULD BE CONFINED TO LOCALIZED AREAS.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE SITUATION
THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. SHORT TERM FORECASTS WILL PINPOINT LOCATIONS
OF THUNDERSTORMS...HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE FLOODING. LISTEN TO NOAA
WEATHER RADIO...THE OFFICIAL VOICE OF THE NATION WEATHER SERVICE FOR
UPDATED INFORMATION.

BLAES /NWSFO ALY

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.