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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Albany, NY

May 1, 1997Rensselaer County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 1997, 6:32 PM EDT for Rensselaer County, New York. It was in force for 43 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
May 1, 1997, 6:32 PM EDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired
May 1, 1997, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Rensselaer County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 26 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1997-05-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1997-05-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 278 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
965 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
278 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
337 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.

729 
WUUS1 KALB 012232 RRA
SVRALB
NYC083-012315-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
632 PM EDT THU MAY 1 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY  HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST NEW YORK
 
   ...EASTERN RENSSELAER COUNTY
 
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PASS THROUGH EASTERN RENSSELAER
COUNTY BETWEEN STEPHENTOWN AND PETERSBURG BY 7 PM THIS EVENING.
QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 1, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia64 min
May 1, 6:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYDutchess42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1997Every 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.