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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Albany, NY

May 10, 2000Rensselaer County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2000, 7:26 AM EDT for Rensselaer County, New York. It was in force for 64 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, 7:26 AM EDT (11:26 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 2000, 8:30 AM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Rensselaer County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:26 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 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 33 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 00:00Z on 2000-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1296 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 00:00Z on 2000-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 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
1296 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1357 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KALY 101126
SVRALB
NYC083-101230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 830 AM EDT

* AT 721 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF TROY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  3 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOOSICK FALLS AT 745 AM EDT
 
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 4276 7376 4264 7357 4299 7310 4315 7333

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, 7:33 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia, Dutchess57 min
May 10, 7:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYUlster56 min
May 10, 8:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYDutchess49 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

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.