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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Albany, NY

June 26, 2006Schenectady County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2006, 2:02 PM EDT for Schenectady County, New York. It was in force for 28 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 26, 2006, 2:02 PM EDT (18:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2006, 2:30 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Schenectady County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:01 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 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 23 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2006-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 149 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2006-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 203 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
149 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
479 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
203 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
284 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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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 Jun 26, 10:50 AM EDT, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 10:50 AM EDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 26, 1:56 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
156 PM EDT MON JUN 26 2006

NYZ041-048>050-083-261900-
WESTERN SCHENECTADY NY-EASTERN SCHENECTADY NY-SOUTHERN SARATOGA NY-
NORTHERN SARATOGA NY-SOUTHEAST WARREN NY-
156 PM EDT MON JUN 26 2006

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SCHENECTADY...MOVING TOWARD SARATOGA AND
WARREN COUNTIES...

AT 155 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...WINDS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH  THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ROTTERDAM...OR ABOUT OVER ROTTERDAM...AND
MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
EAST GLENVILLE AND ALPLAUS BY 205 PM EDT
BURNT HILLS BY 210 PM EDT
BALLSTON SPA BY 225 PM EDT
ROCK CITY FALLS AND MILTON BY 230 PM EDT
SARATOGA SPRINGS BY 235 PM EDT
CORINTH BY 255 PM EDT

NAS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 11:53 PM EDTFlood WatchALYAlbany, Greene, Schoharie, Ulster24 hr

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.