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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Albany, NY

September 21, 2000Warren County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 21, 2000, 6:39 AM EDT for Warren County, New York. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Sep 21, 2000, 6:39 AM EDT (10:39 UTC)
Expired: Sep 21, 2000, 7:15 AM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Warren County, NY

The radar

The Burlington radar (KCXX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:42 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 259 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 584 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -173 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 835 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 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 
WUUS51 KALY 211039
SVRALB
NYC113-115-211115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
639 AM EDT THU SEP 21 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN WARREN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK
  NORTHWESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK

* UNTIL 715 AM EDT

* AT 635 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BOLTON LANDING...OR ABOUT 4 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF WARRENSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HULETTS LANDING AT 645 AM EDT
  HAGUE AT 655 AM EDT
  AND ACROSS LAKE GEORGE THROUGH 710 AM 

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS. TAKE COVER IN A
STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY
INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4357 7384 4345 7367 4395 7290 4412 7313

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 21, 5:32 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie	58 min
Sep 21, 5:51 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga, Warren	39 min
Sep 21, 6:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer	66 min
Sep 21, 6:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga, Schenectady, Washington	66 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.