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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Albany, NY

July 6, 1999Bennington County, Vermont

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1999, 3:10 PM EDT for Bennington County, Vermont. It was in force for 75 min. 2 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 6, 1999, 3:10 PM EDT (19:10 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 1999, 4:25 PM EDT
In force
75 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Bennington County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 6, 3:35 PM EDTThunderstorm WindArlington, VT
Jul 6, 3:45 PM EDTThunderstorm WindStamford, VT

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 6, 3:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 71 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 1999-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1226 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1999-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 116 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
1226 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
917 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
3.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KALB 061911 RRA
SVRALB
VTC003-062025-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
310 PM EDT TUE JUL 6 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BENNINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN VERMONT

* UNTIL 425 PM EDT

* AT 310 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR RUPERT... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MANCHESTER CENTER AND ARLINGTON AT 320 PM EDT
  SUNDERLAND AND BENNINGTON AT 330 PM EDT.
  WOODFORD AT 345 PM EDT.
  READSBORO AT 400 PM EDT.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND S8TAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

JQ

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 3:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWindham81 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Vermont, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.