Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2001, 9:44 AM EDT for Rensselaer County, New York. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2001, 9:44 AM EDT (13:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2001, 10:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rensselaer County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 10:00 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Sand Lake, 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 nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 26 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 533 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KALY 031344 SVRALY NYC083-031445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUIRED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 944 AM EDT SUN JUN 3 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RENSSELAER COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 1045 AM EDT * AT 937 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 6 MILES WEST OF SCHAGHTICOKE TO NASSAU...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... SCHAGHTICOKE AND POESTENKILL AT 950 AM EDT VALLEY FALLS AND AVERILL PARK AT 955 AM EDT GRAFTON AND STEPHENTOWN AT 1010 AM EDT BERLIN AT 1015 AM EDT HOOSICK FALLS AT 1020 AM EDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER NOW.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 8:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Ulster | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 8:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 56 min |
| Jun 3, 9:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 10:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Washington | 57 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.