Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 2002, 5:18 PM EDT for Rensselaer County, New York. It was in force for 27 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
- Aug 15, 2002, 5:18 PM EDT (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2002, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 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 21:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 5:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy, 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, 9.3 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
- 125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -222 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1487 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
532 WUUS51 KALY 152118 SVRALY NYC083-152145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 518 PM EDT THU AUG 15 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL RENSSELAER COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 514 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR WYNANTSKILL...OR ABOUT 3 MILES EAST OF TROY...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... AVERILL PARK AND RAYMERTOWN AT 525 PM EDT GRAFTON AND BERLIN AT 545 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 4281 7373 4263 7374 4259 7334 4283 7327
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Albany, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 15, 2:22 PM EDT, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 2:22 PM EDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 1050 AM EDT THU 15 2002 .DISC...AIRMASS WARMING WILL CREATE THE THREAT OF CONVECTION OVER THE AREA AGAIN TODAY AND FRIDAY...BUT DYNAMICS ARE NOT AS STRONG AS YESTERDAY. SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOME PARTS OF THE AREA...THOUGH. LONGER TERM...MODELS AGREE ON SLOW PROGRESSION OF 500MB LONG WAVE TROF TOWARD THE AREA THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THEY ALSO AGREE ON SURFACE TROF PASSING THROUGH THE AREA LATE IN THE WEEKEND. .ALY...NONE WESTERGARD
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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.