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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Albany, NY

June 22, 2000Berkshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2000, 5:25 PM EDT for Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 2000, 5:25 PM EDT (21:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Berkshire County, MA

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 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 nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 62 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 2000-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 103 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
103 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
711 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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

408 
WUUS51 KALY 222126
SVRALB
MAC003-222200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
525 PM EDT THU JUN 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 513 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREAT
  BARRINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.  

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HOUSATONIC AT 530 PM EDT...
  LEE AT 550 PM EDT...
  4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LENOX AT 555 PM EDT.

* LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY IN THIS STORM.

$$

LAT...LON 4219 7357 4206 7340 4230 7302 4246 7324

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 Jun 22, 2:34 PM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 2:34 PM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
230 PM PM EDT THU JUN 22 2000

WRKZFP AVLB.

.DISC...

ONE CLDFNT IS SLIPG OFF THE COAST ATTM. 2NDRY CLDFNT STL
UPSTRM...OVR ERN GRTLKS. POTENT SHT WV N...LARGER CAPES S. FORTUNATELY
IT DOES NOT APPEAR THAT THE TWAIN SHOULD MEET. CLDFNT WL CRS OUR
AREA THIS EVE WITH LTL OR NO FANFARE.

STL HV SCT TO WDLY SHRAS OUT THERE. (ALHTOUGH VILS ARE TRNDG
DWNWRD). ONE RUMBLE OF THUNDER NR DELMAR BUT NOT CLD 2 GRND STRIKES
IN AWIPS...(XCPT IN RUTLAND CNTY VT). MORE STRIKES N OF THE CAN BRDR
(WITH THE POTENT SHT WV).

WL LV HOWEVER...THE PROVERBIAL THROUGH ERLY EVE PD IN FOR TON. IN COMING
SHFT CAN TAKE WHENVER THEY DEEM NECESSARY.

OTWX NICE WEATHER COMING UP FOR A FEW DAYS. SFC HI PRES BUILDS OVR
SRN CAN AND CREST OVR NY BY EARLY SAT. HI STRENGTHENS AND IT HITS
THE COAST WHICH SHOULD ENSURE AT LST TWO NICE DAYS IN A ROW.

CAN WE GO THREE DAYS WITHOUT RAIN? WE HV NOT DONE THIS SINCE MAY
30-JUN1. WOULDNT BEAT ON IT...BUT WE MAY SQUEEZE OUT MOST OF
SUN...AS HI IS SLW TO YIELD TO THE NXT CLDFNT. THIS WOULD ONLY BE
THE 2ND COMPLETELY DRY WEEKEND SINCE SPRNG BEGAN (IRONICALLY OTR ONE
WAS MEM DAY).

WL GO CHC LT FOR SUN...THEN ALL DAY MON. BY TUES...NXT TROUGH DIGS
IN...NWRLY FLW AND RESULTANT HI SHOULD BE DRY. NO HEAT WAVES IN SITE.

WL GO CLS TO FWC POPS TON. HOWEVER BASED ON FRHT61...ETA H8
TMPS...AND WET GROUND WL GO ABT A CAT LOER MST PLACES ON FRI. WL
ALSO GO A CAT LOER FRI NITE AND SAT. (FORECAST HIS A BLND OF THE FWC
AND COOLER FANS).

.ALY...NONE.

HWJIV

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 22, 12:48 PM EDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before
MAZ001-CTZ001-NYZ032-033-039>043-047>054-058>061-063>066-VTZ013-014-
222300-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1248 PM EDT THU JUN 22 2000

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG WINDS AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE WESTERN ADIRONDACKS AND LAKE GEORGE
REGION WITH A FEW STORMS APPROACHING SEVERE LIMITS...

THE REMAINDER OF EASTERN NEW YORK AND WESTERN NEW ENGLAND CAN EXPECT
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WILL MAINLY PRODUCE BRIEF
PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN.

A COLD FRONT OVER THE EASTERN GREAT LAKES EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WILL
MOVE INTO EASTERN NEW YORK AND WESTERN NEW ENGLAND THIS EVENING.
AHEAD OF IT...WARM AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL BRING A THREAT OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. RELATIVELY STRONG LOW LEVEL WINDS AND
UNSTABLE AIR ACROSS NORTHERN NEW YORK THIS AFTERNOON WILL RESULT IN
SOME THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING SEVERE LIMITS IN THIS AREA.

STAY TUNED TO THE NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS
FOR FURTHER UPDATES...POSSIBLE WATCHES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

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.