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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Albany, NY

June 27, 2002Fulton County, Montgomery County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2002, 4:01 PM EDT for Fulton County, Montgomery County, New York. It was in force for 59 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 27, 2002, 4:01 PM EDT (20:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2002, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Fulton County, NY, Montgomery County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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 27, 4:20 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield, NY
Jun 27, 4:20 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Gloversville, 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 27, 1:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 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: 722 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 661 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 25 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 272001
SVRALY
NYC035-057-272100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
401 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN FULTON COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK
  MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 354 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM UPPER BENSON TO 8 MILES SOUTH OF
  AMES...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  MAYFIELD AND EPHRATAH AT 405 PM EDT
  HOPE AND CRANBERRY CREEK AT 410 PM EDT
  BROADALBIN AT 415 PM EDT
  NORTHVILLE AND CHARLESTON FOUR CORNERS AT 420 PM EDT
  GLEN AND FULTONVILLE AT 425 PM EDT
  JOHNSTOWN AT 430 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.

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 2:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga	23 min
Jun 27, 2:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Washington	24 min
Jun 27, 3:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Saratoga	54 min
Jun 27, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Herkimer	61 min
Jun 27, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga	58 min
Jun 27, 4:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Fulton, Herkimer, Saratoga	5 hr
Jun 27, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Washington	56 min
Jun 27, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Schenectady	61 min
Jun 27, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany	30 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.