Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Albany, NY

July 17, 1997Saratoga County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1997, 4:05 PM EDT for Saratoga County, New York. It was in force for 60 min. 6 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 17, 1997, 4:05 PM EDT (20:05 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 1997, 5:05 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Saratoga County, NY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jul 17, 4:39 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenfield, NY
Jul 17, 4:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Charlton, NY
Jul 17, 4:50 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Ballston Spa, NY
Jul 17, 4:51 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Round Lake, NY
Jul 17, 5:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Stillwater, NY
Jul 17, 5:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Malta, 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 17, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 46 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: 74 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -161 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1106 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 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 172003 RRA
SVRALB
NYC091-172105-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
405 PM EDT THU JUL 17 1997
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR

SARATOGA    COUNTY -  IN EASTERN NEW YORK

UNTIL  505 PM EDT

AT  400 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM JUST ENTERING SARATOGA COUNTY NORTH OF EDINBURG.

THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE NEAR -

EDINBURG AT  410 PM.
5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CORINTH AT  435 PM.

IF YOU LIVE IN THIS AREA - BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IN
A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM - AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

TORRENTIAL RAIN AND FLOODING MAY ALSO OCCUR WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.


|43.246  74.189 |43.220  74.059 |43.194  73.928 |43.168  73.797 |43.142  73.666

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 17, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Montgomery	60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.