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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Albany, NY

June 5, 2002Saratoga County, Washington County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2002, 7:34 PM EDT for Saratoga County, Washington County, New York. It was in force for 41 min. 4 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 5, 2002, 7:34 PM EDT (23:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2002, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Saratoga County, NY, Washington County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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
Jun 5, 7:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Malta Ridge, NY
Jun 5, 8:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Round Lake, NY
Jun 5, 8:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Cambridge, NY
Jun 5, 8:15 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Stillwater, 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 5, 5:15 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 60 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: 530 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 272 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 304 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.

000 
WUUS51 KALY 052334
SVRALY
NYC091-115-060015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
733 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN SARATOGA COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK
  SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 731 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CHARLTON...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF
  SCOTIA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ROUND LAKE AND SARATOGA SPRINGS AT 745 PM EDT
  SARATOGA LAKE AT 750 PM EDT
  STILLWATER AND MECHANICVILLE AT 755 PM EDT
  NORTH EASTON AT 805 PM EDT
  SOUTH CAMBRIDGE AT 810 PM EDT
  EAGLE BRIDGE AT 815 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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND EASTERN NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN VERMONT.

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 7:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Montgomery, Schoharie	39 min
Jun 5, 7:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Saratoga, Washington	35 min
Jun 5, 7:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Rensselaer	56 min
Jun 5, 7:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Schenectady	37 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.