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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Albany, NY

May 30, 2006Columbia County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2006, 6:09 PM EDT for Columbia County, New York. It was in force for 51 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 30, 2006, 6:09 PM EDT (22:09 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2006, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 51 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), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 30, 2:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 56 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: 556 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -182 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1035 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KALY 302209
SVRALY
NYC021-302315-
/O.NEW.KALY.SV.W.0021.060530T2209Z-060530T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
609 PM EDT TUE MAY 30 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COLUMBIA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...HUDSON...CHATHAM

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 605 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE
  HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE
  LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEW LEBANON TO CHATHAM TO
  HUDSON TO CLERMONT TO 17 MILES WEST OF CLERMONT...OR ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM PITTSFIELD TO CHATHAM TO CATSKILL TO SAUGERTIES TO 6
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF HUNTER...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 45 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  LIVINGSTON AND AUSTERLITZ BY 615 PM EDT
  COPAKE AND ANCRAM BY 625 PM EDT

LAT...LON 4200 7372 4208 7390 4208 7393 4216 7390
      4219 7386 4224 7384 4228 7379 4235 7378
      4237 7375 4249 7352 4250 7335 4250 7335
      4208 7350 4205 7348 4200 7354 4198 7354

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KALY 302300
SVSALY

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
700 PM EDT TUE MAY 30 2006

NYC021-302310-
/O.CAN.KALY.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-060530T2315Z/
COLUMBIA NY-
700 PM EDT TUE MAY 30 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR COLUMBIA COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN CONNECTICUT AND WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK.

LAT...LON 4200 7372 4208 7390 4208 7393 4216 7390
      4219 7386 4224 7384 4228 7379 4235 7378
      4237 7375 4249 7352 4250 7335 4250 7335
      4208 7350 4205 7348 4200 7354 4198 7354

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Warren, Washington	61 min
May 30, 2:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Hamilton	63 min
May 30, 2:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	66 min
May 30, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Hamilton, Warren, Washington	59 min
May 30, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton	55 min
May 30, 3:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Fulton	35 min
May 30, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Montgomery	59 min
May 30, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga, Schenectady	51 min
May 30, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Schoharie	56 min
May 30, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Greene	57 min
May 30, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Schoharie	31 min
May 30, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Greene, Ulster	60 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.