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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Albany, NY

May 10, 2000Dutchess County, New York; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2000, 8:41 AM EDT for Dutchess County, New York; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 49 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
May 10, 2000, 8:41 AM EDT (12:41 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 2000, 9:30 AM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Dutchess County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:41 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 120 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 110 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
504 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KALY 101241
SVRALB
CTC005-NYC027-101330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
841 AM EDT WED MAY 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DUTCHESS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK
  LITCHFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT

* UNTIL 930 AM EDT

* AT 829 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM AMENIA TO 15 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF AMENIA TO 28 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AMENIA...OR ALONG A
  LINE EXTENDING FROM 21 MILES WEST OF TORRINGTON TO 6 MILES EAST OF
  ARLINGTON TO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF POUGHKEEPSIE...MOVING EAST AT 20
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE BETWEEN...
  CANAAN...AMENIA AND VERBANK AT 850 AM
  NORFOLK...WEST CORNWALL AND DOVER PLAINS AT 900 AM
  COLEBROOK...TORRINGTON AND WOODVILLE AT 915 AM

HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. IF YOU ARE 
IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A 
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN ALBANY.

LAT...LON 4189 7352 4168 7385 4159 7420 4172 7374
          4182 7339 4202 7306

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 10:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYDutchess26 min
May 10, 7:26 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYRensselaer64 min
May 10, 7:33 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia, Dutchess57 min
May 10, 7:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYUlster56 min
May 10, 9:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYUlster60 min
May 10, 9:48 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYDutchess57 min
May 10, 10:53 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYUlster52 min
May 10, 11:16 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia, Dutchess59 min
May 10, 12:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHerkimer52 min
May 10, 1:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYMontgomery, Schoharie45 min
May 10, 1:48 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYHerkimer2 hr
May 10, 2:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYFulton, Saratoga60 min
May 10, 4:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYHamilton, Herkimer5 hr
May 10, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYSaratoga28 min
May 10, 5:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYSaratoga25 min
May 10, 5:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYRensselaer28 min
May 10, 5:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYRensselaer, Washington24 min
May 9, 10:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYNorthwest Hills Planning Region38 min
May 10, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYNorthwest Hills Planning Region53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.