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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Albany, NY

May 13, 2000Montgomery County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this tornado warning at May 13, 2000, 6:08 PM EDT for Montgomery County, New York. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 2000, 6:08 PM EDT (22:08 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2000, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Montgomery County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 13, 6:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Canajoharie, NY

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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 13, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 59 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 588 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

170 
WFUS51 KALY 132209
TORALB
NYC057-132245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
608 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 605 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER CANAJOHARIE...OR ABOUT 13
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF JOHNSTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.


LAT...LON 4297 7471 4287 7471 4288 7413 4297 7413

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 4:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Herkimer	35 min
May 13, 4:58 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Herkimer	3 hr
May 13, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Herkimer	44 min
May 13, 5:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton	26 min
May 13, 5:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Fulton, Montgomery, Warren	3 hr

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.