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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Albany, NY

May 10, 2000Herkimer County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2000, 12:38 PM EDT for Herkimer County, New York. It was in force for 52 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, 12:38 PM EDT (16:38 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2000, 1:30 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Herkimer County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:40 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 10, 10:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
May 10, 11:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 298 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -156 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1131 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

319 
WUUS51 KALY 101638
SVRALB
NYC043-101730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1238 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HERKIMER COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 130 PM EDT

* AT 1232 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES SOUTH OF ILION...MOVING NORTH AT 50
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  OVER COLUMBIA CENTER AT 1245 PM EDT 
  OVER HERKIMER...2 MILES EAST OF FRANKFORT AT 1250 PM EDT
  FAIRFIELD AT 100 PM EDT
  OHIO AT 115 PM EDT 

HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. 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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN VERMONT. A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR EASTERN NEW YORK.

LAT...LON 4270 7526 4266 7502 4360 7465 4366 7502

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 May 10, 10:00 AM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 10:00 AM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1000 AM EDT WED MAY 10 2000

DISC...QSTNRY FNT EXTDG NW-SE ACRS NY STATE WL DRFT EWD TO N-S PSN
ACRS CNTRL NEW ENG BY 06Z THU.

SLD LN TSTMS...SVRL SVR...ACRS SE NY MOVG NNE 25 KT.  ALB WRK ZNS
AVBL IN ALBAFDALY.  NO SGFNT CHNG TO PREV ZN PKG XCP FOR LWRG TMPS
THIS AFTN.

.ALY...SVR TSTM WRNGS FOR PTNS OF THE AREA.

EPA

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 10, 8:00 AM EDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
800 AM EDT TUE MAY 10 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0725 AM    BRUNSWICK                 NY   1 INCH HAIL
05/10/00   RENSSELAER                     DIME SIZED AND SOME
                                          QUARTER SIZED

0729 AM    TIVOLI                    NY   .75 INCH HAIL
05/10/00   DUTCHESS

0735 AM    TIVOLI                    NY   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/10/00   DUTCHESS

NNNN

Local storm report, May 10, 9:08 AM EDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT  ...CORRECTED DATE...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
908 AM EDT WED MAY 10 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0900 AM    RHINEBECK                 NY   .75 INCH HAIL
05/10/00   DUTCHESS

0947 AM    HYDE PARK                 NY   1 INCH HAIL
05/10/00   DUTCHESS                       1

CERNIGLIA
NNNN

Local storm report, May 10, 11:46 AM EDT, 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1146 AM EDT WED MAY 10 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1041 AM    ACCORD                    NY   .75 INCH HAIL
05/10/00   ULSTER

1045 AM    HYDE PARK                 NY   .75 INCH HAIL
05/10/00   DUTCHESS

1135 AM    KINGSTON                  NY   .75 INCH HAIL
05/10/00   ULSTER                         HALF WAY BETWEEN KINGSTON
                                          AND SAUGERTIES ON THE
                                          THRUWAY.

CERNIGLIA
NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 10:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess	26 min
May 10, 7:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer	64 min
May 10, 7:33 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess	57 min
May 10, 7:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Ulster	56 min
May 10, 8:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess	49 min
May 10, 9:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Ulster	60 min
May 10, 9:48 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess	57 min
May 10, 10:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Ulster	52 min
May 10, 11:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess	59 min
May 10, 1:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Montgomery, Schoharie	45 min
May 10, 1:48 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Herkimer	2 hr
May 10, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Saratoga	60 min
May 10, 4:30 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	5 hr
May 10, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga	28 min
May 10, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga	25 min
May 10, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer	28 min
May 10, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer, Washington	24 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.