Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2006, 3:49 PM EDT for Columbia County, Ulster County, New York. It was in force for 41 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
- Jun 20, 2006, 3:49 PM EDT (19:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2006, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Columbia County, NY, Ulster County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 12:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 862 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 20, 10:21 AM EDT, 5 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 10:21 AM EDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 1241 PM EDT TUE JUN 20 2006 MAZ001-025-NYZ041-043-049-050-052>054-060-061-084-VTZ013>015- 211100- NORTHERN BERKSHIRE-SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE-NORTHERN SARATOGA- NORTHERN WASHINGTON-EASTERN SCHENECTADY-SOUTHERN SARATOGA- EASTERN ALBANY-WESTERN RENSSELAER-EASTERN RENSSELAER- WESTERN COLUMBIA-EASTERN COLUMBIA-SOUTHERN WASHINGTON-BENNINGTON- WESTERN WINDHAM-EASTERN WINDHAM- 1241 PM EDT TUE JUN 20 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WASHINGTON...SARATOGA... SCHENECTADY...ALBANY...RENSSELAER...COLUMBIA...BENNINGTON... WINDHAM AND BERKSHIRE COUNTIES. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 521 HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THIS AREA UNTIL 800 PM. DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WIND GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE ARE THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS...BUT LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE FROM WEST TO EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... WASHINGTON...SARATOGA...SCHENECTADY...ALBANY...RENSSELAER...COLUMBIA... BENNINGTON...WINDHAM AND BERKSHIRE COUNTIES. CTZ001-013-NYZ032-033-038>040-042-047-048-051-058-059-063>066-082- 083-211100- NORTHERN LITCHFIELD-SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD-NORTHERN HERKIMER- HAMILTON-SOUTHERN HERKIMER-SOUTHERN FULTON-MONTGOMERY- NORTHERN WARREN-SCHOHARIE-WESTERN SCHENECTADY-WESTERN ALBANY- WESTERN GREENE-EASTERN GREENE-WESTERN ULSTER-EASTERN ULSTER- WESTERN DUTCHESS-EASTERN DUTCHESS-NORTHERN FULTON- SOUTHEAST WARREN- 1241 PM EDT TUE JUN 20 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN CONNECTICUT AND EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SCATTERED NON-SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE EACH DAY FROM THURSDAY INTO THE WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 327 PM EDT TUE JUN 20 2006 NYZ040-047-202015- SCHOHARIE NY-MONTGOMERY NY- 327 PM EDT TUE JUN 20 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SCHOHARIE AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES... AT 323 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...SMALL HAIL...WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM SHARON SPRINGS TO 17 MILES WEST OF SUMMIT...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CANAJOHARIE TO 6 MILES NORTH OF MARYLAND...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... SUMMIT...RICHMONDVILLE AND COBLESKILL BY 350 PM EDT. CENTRAL BRIDGE AND JEFFERSON BY 400 PM EDT. SCHOHARIE BY 405 PM EDT. NORTH BLENHEIM...MIDDLEBURGH AND BREAKABEEN BY 410 PM EDT. JPV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 42 min |
| Jun 20, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer | 43 min |
| Jun 20, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia | 53 min |
| Jun 20, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 41 min |
| Jun 20, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 50 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.