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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Albany, NY

June 2, 2000Schenectady County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2000, 3:38 PM EDT for Schenectady County, New York. It was in force for 67 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
Jun 2, 2000, 3:38 PM EDT (19:38 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2000, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Schenectady County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 2, 12:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 2, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 25 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 2000-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 211 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2238 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
211 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
280 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KALY 021939
SVRALB
NYC093-022045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
338 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SCHENECTADY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 335 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED 15 MILES WEST OF
  SCOTIA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORGM WILL BE NEAR...
  OVER SCOTIA AT 355 PM EDT


LAT...LON 4289 7405 4280 7423 4279 7394 4289 7392

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 7:12 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYFulton, Montgomery33 min
Jun 2, 2:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHerkimer43 min
Jun 2, 3:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYFulton42 min
Jun 2, 3:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYAlbany, Rensselaer53 min
Jun 2, 3:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHerkimer, Montgomery36 min
Jun 2, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYSchoharie60 min
Jun 2, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYFulton, Saratoga55 min
Jun 2, 3:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYGreene60 min
Jun 2, 3:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWashington50 min
Jun 2, 4:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYAlbany, Rensselaer75 min
Jun 2, 4:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia52 min
Jun 2, 4:20 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYRensselaer3 hr
Jun 2, 4:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYGreene, Ulster60 min
Jun 2, 4:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia46 min
Jun 2, 5:04 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYColumbia3 hr
Jun 2, 5:22 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYGreene3 hr
Jun 2, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYDutchess, Ulster55 min
Jun 2, 6:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYDutchess3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 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.