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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Albany, NY

September 27, 1998Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut; Dutchess County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this tornado warning at Sep 27, 1998, 1:11 AM EDT for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut; Dutchess County, New York. It was in force for 44 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
Sep 27, 1998, 1:11 AM EDT (05:11 UTC)
Expired
Sep 27, 1998, 1:55 AM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Dutchess County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 102 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 00:00Z on 1998-09-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 134 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, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 1998-09-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
134 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-240 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
952 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 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 270512
TORALB
CTC005-NYC027-270600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
111 AM EDT SUN SEP 27 1998


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LITCHFIELD  COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT
  DUTCHESS    COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL  155 AM EDT

* AT 110 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO JUST SOUTHEAST OF DOVER PLAINS MOVING SOUTHEAST
  ABOUT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DOVER PLAINS AT  115 AM
  5 MILES WEST OF NEW PRESTON AT  120 AM
  NEW MILFORD AT  130 AM
  WOODBURY CENTER AT  145 AM

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


|41.719  73.542 |41.639  73.413 |41.558  73.283 |41.478  73.153
|41.398  73.023



JSQ/MAC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 27, 12:17 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYNorthwest Hills Planning Region63 min
Sep 26, 9:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHamilton, Herkimer61 min
Sep 26, 10:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYFulton, Montgomery75 min
Sep 26, 10:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHamilton, Herkimer46 min
Sep 26, 10:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWarren61 min
Sep 26, 10:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYSaratoga60 min
Sep 26, 11:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYAlbany, Schenectady, Schoharie58 min
Sep 26, 11:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYRensselaer, Washington60 min
Sep 26, 11:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia, Greene61 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Connecticut, 1998Tornado Warnings in New York, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes in 1998

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.