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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Albany, NY

July 13, 2005Fulton County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2005, 2:50 AM EDT for Fulton County, New York. It was in force for 58 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 13, 2005, 2:50 AM EDT (06:50 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2005, 3:48 AM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Fulton County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 67 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: 936 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1238 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 3.2

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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 Jul 12, 8:35 PM EDT, 6 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 8:35 PM EDT, 6 hours 15 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 2:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Hamilton	35 min
Jul 13, 7:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Hamilton	3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.