Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this tornado warning at Jul 21, 2003, 3:41 PM EDT for Albany County, Schenectady County, New York. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 2003, 3:41 PM EDT (19:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2003, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Albany County, NY, Schenectady County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 15 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
- 159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 906 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KALY 211941 TORALY NYC001-093-212030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 341 PM EDT MON JUL 21 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN ALBANY COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK SOUTHERN SCHENECTADY COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 430 PM EDT * AT 336 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY TIME NEAR ALTAMONT...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROTTERDAM...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... VOORHEESVILLE AND ROTTERDAM AT 355 PM EDT GUILDERLAND AND SCHENECTADY AT 405 PM EDT DELMAR AND NISKAYUNA AT 410 PM EDT COLONIE AT 415 PM EDT LOUDONVILLE AND ALBANY AT 425 PM EDT LATHAM AT 430 PM EDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMMEDIATELY. SEEK SHELTER IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUIDLING. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. $$ GJM/TAW LAT...LON 4276 7417 4258 7412 4262 7359 4286 7365
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Schoharie | 46 min |
| Jul 21, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Greene | 63 min |
| Jul 21, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Schenectady | 72 min |
| Jul 21, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer, Saratoga, Washington | 64 min |
| Jul 21, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Schoharie | 63 min |
| Jul 21, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 36 min |
| Jul 21, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Ulster | 66 min |
| Jul 21, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Greene | 75 min |
| Jul 21, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany | 58 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.