Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2001, 5:15 PM EDT for Greene County, Ulster County, New York. It was in force for 60 min. 2 reports 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 20, 2001, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2001, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greene County, NY, Ulster County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 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 20, 5:15 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Phoenicia, NY | |
| Jun 20, 5:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Hunter, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 226 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1047 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KALY 202117 SVRALY VTC025-202215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUIRED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 517 PM EDT WED JUN 20 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN WINDHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHERN VERMONT * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 513 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR GRAFTON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF TOWNSHEND...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SAXTONS RIVER AT 520 PM EDT ROCKINGHAM AT 525 PM EDT BELLOWS FALLS AT 530 PM 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. $$ LAT...LON 4325 7268 4307 7272 4303 7247 4323 7245
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Greene | 51 min |
| Jun 20, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia, Greene | 71 min |
| Jun 20, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia | 65 min |
| Jun 20, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Greene | 30 min |
| Jun 20, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 49 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.