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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Albany, NY

July 18, 1999Schoharie County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1999, 8:07 PM EDT for Schoharie County, New York. It was in force for 68 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: Jul 18, 1999, 8:07 PM EDT (00:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 1999, 9:15 PM EDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Schoharie County, NY

The radar

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Albany, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 18, 2:18 PM EDT, 5 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 2:18 PM EDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
215 PM SUN JUL 18 1999

.DISC...
IN SVR WX MODE ATTM AS SVR CELLS HAVE POPPED UP ACRS WASHINGTON CNTY
AND WERE MOVG SE....HAVE RECVD RPTS OF GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL ACRS THE
FT ANN/SALEM CTY LN.

.SYNOPSIS...
SFC BNDRY LYING ACRS ERN NY HAS TRIGGERED QUICK DVLPG PULSE TYPE
STRMS. USING THE CAROPOLO/CERNEGLIA/BLAES ET/VIL NOMOGRAM HV ISSUED
SVR TSTM WRNGS FOR WASHINGTON AND BENNINGTON COUNTIES RIGHT NOW. MRNG
ALB SNDGS INDCATE CAPE OF 3500 J/KG WITH A SLIGHT CAP AND LI OF -8.
CAP HAS BKN AND EXPLOSIVE DVLPMNT OCCURRING. DAYTIME HEATING HAS
CONTRIBUTED TO DSTBLZTN AND INCRSD CONVECTIVE DVLPMNT DURG THE PAST
FEW HRS. DIVERGENT UPR FLW FLDS AHD OF WK S/WV EMBEDDED WITHIN STGR
BND OF WESTERLIES...EVIDENT IN W/VP IMGRY...APPEARS TO BE ENHANCING
ACTVTY...WHICH IS XPCTED TO INTENSIFY DURG THE NXT FEW HRS. SHEAR
PROFILES ARE RATHER WK BUT MOVMNT OF STGR CELLS IN 20 TO 30 KT MEAN
ENVIRONMENTAL FLW RGM WL ENHANCE POT FOR GUSTY WINDS APPRCHG OR
XCEEDING SVR LIMITS.

AS FAR THE FCST GOES...WL FOLLOW CLOSE TO MDLS ATTM AND WILL REVIEW
LTR.

.ALY...NONE.

MAC

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 18, 4:54 PM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1999 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.