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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Albany, NY

June 29, 1999Albany County, Rensselaer County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1999, 5:12 PM EDT for Albany County, Rensselaer County, New York. It was in force for 48 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
Jun 29, 1999, 5:12 PM EDT (21:12 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1999, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Albany County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 8 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 1999-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 493 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 12:00Z on 1999-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 115 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
493 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
516 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.5

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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.