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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Albany, NY

August 11, 1998Rensselaer County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 1998, 7:17 PM EDT for Rensselaer County, New York. It was in force for 63 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
Aug 11, 1998, 7:17 PM EDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired
Aug 11, 1998, 8:20 PM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Rensselaer County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 212 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 1998-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 68 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 1998-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
68 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
699 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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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.