Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2004, 3:44 PM EDT for Columbia County, New York. It was in force for 46 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2004, 3:44 PM EDT (19:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2004, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Columbia County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 4:02 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Ancram, NY | TREES DOWN |
| May 13, 4:02 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Ancram, NY | TREES DOWN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -176 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1092 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
417
WUUS51 KALY 131944
SVRALY
NYC021-132030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
343 PM EDT THU MAY 13 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK
* UNTIL 430 PM EDT
* AT 337 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
ANCRAM...OR ABOUT 16 MILES EAST OF RHINEBECK...AND MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 20 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
COPAKE BY 400 PM EDT
9 MILES SOUTH OF AUSTERLITZ BY 430 PM EDT
LAT...LON 4200 7374 4234 7349 4230 7342 4223 7345
4205 7350 4199 7355
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 12:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Warren | 3 hr |
| May 13, 1:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Hamilton | 3 hr |
| May 13, 1:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Warren, Washington | 26 min |
| May 13, 2:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Schoharie | 3 hr |
| May 13, 2:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Ulster | 51 min |
| May 13, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Warren, Washington | 64 min |
| May 13, 2:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Ulster | 3 hr |
| May 13, 2:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Greene | 3 hr |
| May 13, 3:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Montgomery | 3 hr |
| May 13, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 43 min |
| May 13, 3:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Warren | 3 hr |
| May 13, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Herkimer, Montgomery | 38 min |
| May 13, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Warren, Washington | 37 min |
| May 13, 4:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Washington | 3 hr |
| May 13, 6:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Ulster | 3 hr |
| May 13, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Ulster | 47 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.