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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 486

July 1, 20015 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 1, 2001, 10:30 AM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 1, 2001, 10:30 AM EDT (14:30 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 2001, 4:00 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 40 counties

Berkshire County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Androscoggin County, ME, Franklin County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Belknap County, NH, Carroll County, NH, Cheshire County, NH, Coos County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Hillsborough County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Sullivan County, NH, Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Addison County, VT, Bennington County, VT, Caledonia County, VT, Chittenden County, VT, Essex County, VT, Lamoille County, VT, Orange County, VT, Orleans County, VT, Rutland County, VT, Washington County, VT, Windham County, VT, Windsor County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 12:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWashington60 min
Jul 1, 12:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYRensselaer67 min
Jul 1, 1:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYRensselaer64 min
Jul 1, 1:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXHillsborough48 min
Jul 1, 1:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYBerkshire82 min
Jul 1, 2:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXCheshire41 min
Jul 1, 2:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYMontgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie80 min
Jul 1, 2:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXFranklin43 min
Jul 1, 2:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYAlbany56 min
Jul 1, 2:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYRensselaer, Saratoga63 min
Jul 1, 3:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia59 min
Jul 1, 3:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYBerkshire73 min
Jul 1, 3:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXFranklin, Worcester66 min
Jul 1, 3:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWashington66 min
Jul 1, 3:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYRensselaer52 min
Jul 1, 3:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWindham65 min

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2001-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1136 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 2001-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1136 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 2:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCYork7 hr
Jul 1, 2:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAndroscoggin, Cumberland, Hancock, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln and 4 more7 hr
Jul 1, 3:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBristol, Dukes, Plymouth6 hr
Jul 1, 8:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllegany, Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Clinton and 21 more6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New York, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Vermont, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Hampshire, 2001Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2001

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.