Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2000, 11:05 PM EDT for Albany County, Rensselaer County, New York. It was in force for 55 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2000, 11:05 PM EDT (03:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2000, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Albany County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 11:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Schodack Center, NY | |
| Aug 9, 11:53 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Stephentown, NY | |
| Aug 9, 11:54 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Stephentown, NY | |
| Aug 9, 11:55 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Stephentown, NY |
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 209 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 805 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1157 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
233 WUUS51 KALY 100305 SVRALB NYC001-083-100400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 1105 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN ALBANY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK SOUTHERN RENSSELAER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK * UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT * AT 1057 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SELKIRK...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF DELMAR...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CASTLETON-ON-HUDSON AT 1110 PM EDT 5 MILES SOUTH OF EAST GREENBUSH AT 1115 PM EDT NASSAU AT 1120 PM EDT 7 MILES SOUTH OF WEST SAND LAKE AT 1125 PM EDT 6 MILES SOUTH OF AVERILL PARK AT 1130 PM EDT STEPHENTOWN AT 1135 PM EDT LAT...LON 4265 7415 4245 7409 4253 7337 4274 7332
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 8:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer | 55 min |
| Aug 9, 10:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Greene, Schoharie | 65 min |
| Aug 9, 11:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia | 67 min |
| Aug 10, 12:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Ulster | 56 min |
| Aug 10, 12:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 57 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.